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| Global Score | |
| 62.2 | 59.7 |
| Basic Information | |
| Apple | Amazon |
| iPadOS 18.x, 17.x, 16.x, 15.x, 14.x | Android 9.0 Pie |
| 2020-09-18 | 2020-06-03 |
| 9.87 x 6.85 x 0.30 inches | 7.95 x 5.39 x 0.38 inches |
| 17.46 ounces | 12.52 ounces |
| Gold, Silver and Space gray | Black, Plum, Slate, Twilight blue and White |
| Aluminum and Aluminum | -- |
| -- | $ 110.00 |
| Display / Screen | |
| 10.2 inches | 8 inches |
| 2160 x 1620 pixels | 1280 x 800 pixels |
| IPS LCD | IPS LCD |
| 265 pixels per inch | 189 pixels per inch |
| 500 cd/m2 brightness | -- |
| No touch screen | No touch screen |
| 7.6 | 6.6 |
| Performance | |
| Apple A12 Bionic (7 nm) chipset | MediaTek MT8168 chipset |
| processor | Arm Cortex-A53, 64-bit, 12 nm (Quad-Core 2000 MHz) processor |
| 3 GB RAM | 3 GB RAM |
| Apple GPU 4 core GPU | Mali G52 MC1 GPU |
| 6.21 | 8.82 |
| Storage | |
| 32 GB internal memory | 32 GB internal memory |
| No SD card slot | microSDXC (up to 1000 GB) external memory slot |
| 5.8 | 11.08 |
| Camera | |
| 8.00 MP + 1.20 MP | 2.00 MP + 2.00 MP |
| f/2.40 aperture | -- |
| 1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD) video resolution | 1280 x 720 (HD) video resolution |
| 1280 x 720 (120 fps) (HD) slow motion video | -- |
| 8.36 | 5.28 |
| Networks | |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi |
| LTE-A (4G), LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA and HSUPA | -- |
| Nano SIM, Dual SIM | -- |
| 6.1 | 2.4 |
| Battery Life | |
| Li - Ion Battery | -- |
| Non-Removable Battery | Non-Removable Battery |
| 1.36 | 1.36 |
| Other Features | |
| Bluetooth 4.2 | Bluetooth 5.0 |
| GPS | GPS |
| Fingerprint ID Scanner | -- |
| Accelerometer, Barometer, Compass, Gyroscope and Light Sensor | Accelerometer and Light Sensor |
Comparison review
The Apple iPad 10.2 (2020) is just a bit better than the Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus (2020), getting a 62.2 score against 59.7. Even though the Apple iPad 10.2 (2020) and Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus (2020) were released only 4 months apart, Apple iPad 10.2 (2020)'s design is incredibly heavier but noticeably thinner. Apple iPad 10.2 (2020) has iPadOS 18.x OS, while Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus (2020) has Android 9.0 Pie OS.
Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus (2020) has a much more powerful CPU than iPad 10.2 (2020), although it has a lower number of cores , they both have a 3 GB RAM memory. IPad 10.2 (2020) has a much better looking display than Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus (2020), because it has a bigger display, a lot higher resolution of 1620 x 2160 pixels and a better count of pixels per inch in the display.
IPad 10.2 (2020) features a way better camera than Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus (2020), because it has a back facing camera with a lot higher 8 megapixels resolution and a way better 1920x1080 (Full HD) video quality. The Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus (2020) features a much better memory capacity to install games and applications than iPad 10.2 (2020), and although they both have exactly the same internal storage capacity, the Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus (2020) also has an external memory slot that holds a maximum of 1000 GB.
Apple iPad 10.2 (2020) and Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus (2020) have very similar batteries performance.
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