Mi Pad vs Nexus 9- Twice the number of cores at half the price
With the entrance of Xiaomi's first tablet into India, we pitted it against the long-standing Nexus, to see how it stood up to the challenge.
Xiaomi has recently announced that it’ll be launching its first ever tablet, the Mi Pad, in India, for a price tag of Rs 12,999. The tablet, like every other Xiaomi product is aggressively priced, offering good bang for your buck. It is expected in India soon, so we thought of pitting it against the best from the Android stable, the Google Nexus 9.Display The Mi Pad sports a 7.9-inch display whereas the Nexus 9 comes with a much bigger 8.9-inch screen. Both the devices have a resolution of 1536 x 2048 pixels with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Because of the larger screen size, the Nexus 9 loses in the pixel density race with 288PPI compared to the Retina display-like 326PPI on the Mi Pad.ProcessorsBoth these devices sport Nvidia Tegra K1 processors, with the Mi Pad running a Quad Core K1 Processor clocked at 2.2 GHz, and the Nexus running a K1 Denver, Dual Core processor clocked at 2.3GHz. At this point you’ll be wondering, do cores really matter? The Nexus has a 64-bit processor which goes well with the 64-bit Android Lollipop. The Mi Pad on the other hand has 32 bit cores. These devices have 192 core Keplar GPU making them suitable for some intense gaming and 2GB of RAM ensures smooth multitasking.