Compare tablets
| Global Score | |
| 70.4 | 65.7 |
| Basic Information | |
| Apple | Samsung |
| iPadOS 18.x | Android 9.0 Pie, 7.1 Nougat |
| 2025-03-12 | 2017-10-10 |
| -- | 8.35 x 4.89 x 0.35 inches |
| 21.76 ounces | 12.84 ounces |
| Blue, Purple, Space Gray and Starlight | 16 777 216 |
| -- | Metal |
| Display / Screen | |
| 13 inches | 8 inches |
| -- | 1280 x 800 pixels |
| IPS LCD | IPS LCD |
| -- | 189 pixels per inch |
| 600 cd/m2 brightness | -- |
| No touch screen | No touch screen |
| 3.8 | 6.5 |
| Performance | |
| Apple M3 chipset | Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 8917 chipset |
| processor | ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit, 28 nm (Quad-Core 1400 MHz) processor |
| 8 GB RAM | 2 GB RAM |
| Apple GPU 9-core GPU | Adreno 308 GPU |
| 6.3 | 8.28 |
| Storage | |
| 128 GB internal memory | 16 GB internal memory |
| No SD card slot | microSDXC (up to 256 GB) external memory slot |
| 10.1 | 7.48 |
| Camera | |
| 12.00 MP + 12.00 MP | 8.00 MP + 5.00 MP |
| f/1.80 aperture | f/1.90 aperture |
| 0.33 inches (1/3") sensor | -- |
| 3840 x 2160 (60 fps) (4K) video resolution | 1920 x 1080 (30 fps) (Full HD) video resolution |
| 9.9 | 8.47 |
| Networks | |
| -- | Wi-Fi |
| -- | Mobile Hotspot |
| 5G, 5G, LTE-A (4G), LTE (4G), HSPA+ (4G) and HSDPA | -- |
| -- | Nano SIM |
| 7.6 | 3 |
| Battery Life | |
| 9705mAh Battery | 5000mAh Li - Ion Battery |
| Non-Removable Battery | Non-Removable Battery |
| 10.08 | 6.8 |
| Other Features | |
| Bluetooth 5.3 | Bluetooth 4.2 |
| GPS | GPS |
| Fingerprint ID Scanner | -- |
| Accelerometer, Barometer, Compass, Gyroscope and Light Sensor | Accelerometer and Light Sensor |
Comparison review
Apple iPad Air 13-inch (M3, 2025) has a score of 70.4, which is slightly better than the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017)'s overall score of 65.7. Apple iPad Air 13-inch (M3, 2025) has iPadOS 18.x OS, while Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017) works with Android 9.0 Pie OS. The Apple iPad Air 13-inch (M3, 2025) is a much newer and incredibly thinner tablet than the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017), although it is noticeably heavier.
Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017) has a much better performing CPU than iPad Air 13-inch (M3, 2025), although it has a lower amount of RAM and an inferior number of cores (although they are faster). Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017) counts with a lot better display than iPad Air 13-inch (M3, 2025), although it has a really smaller display.
IPad Air 13-inch (M3, 2025) shoots much clearer photographs and videos than Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017), because it has a bigger aperture, a much higher video resolution and a back-facing camera with a much better 12 mega-pixels resolution. The iPad Air 13-inch (M3, 2025) counts with a lot bigger storage to install applications and games than Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017), because although it has no slot for an SD memory card, it also counts with 128 GB internal memory capacity.
The Apple iPad Air 13-inch (M3, 2025) has a much longer battery lifetime than Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2017), because it has 9705mAh of battery capacity against 5000mAh.
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