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Originally Posted by Lparsons21
I currently have a 5th gen HD8 and am looking at moving up. But it seems the 5th gen and 8th gen have the same processor though a better graphics chip in the 8th gen. With that given, is the performance better than the 5th gen?
I ask because while I like the approach Amazon has taken with the UI, I really dislike the overall dogginess of its performance.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_HD
The processors are different; the former is 32 bit, the latter is 64 bit.
Former has only 1GB RAM, the latter has 1.5GB.
I have an HD 6 (4th gen), which has pretty much the same CPU specs as HD 8 (5th gen), and HD 8 (7th gen), which has pretty much the same CPU specs as HD 8 (8th gen). I can say the latter is quite a bit faster, plus it has SD expansion. The 8th gen is considerably cheaper than the 5th gen was, as well. I cannot comment on raw performance as I have very few 3rd party apps on my HD 8. But it is much, much better for the basics.