Amazon also quotes only up to 10 hours of usage for the Fire 7 versus 12 hours of usage for both the Fire HD 8 and the Fire HD 10. It is, however, safe to assume that the Fire 7 has the smallest battery out of the three given its physical size. Both the Fire HD 8 and the Fire HD 10 get 32GB as base storage, which we think is ideal for most users.Īmazon refrains from publicly sharing the battery specs for its Fire tablets.

Yes, you can add a microSD card with up to 1TB storage on all three tablets, but that's just asking you to spend more money if you intend to keep these tablets around for a long time. In fact, the base variant of the Fire 7 only gets 16GB of storage, out of which only about 10GB is user-accessible. While the Fire HD 8 and the Fire HD 10 tablets both come with up to 64GB of internal storage, the Fire 7 tops out at 32GB. The more affordable Fire 7, however, lacks in the storage department. The additional memory will allow you to keep more apps open in the background. 2GB RAM should be enough for all your day-to-day usage, be it watching videos on Prime Video or reading e-books using the Kindle app. It's nice to have more memory at your disposal but even the Fire 7 and the standard variant of the Fire HD 8 with 2GB RAM can handle almost all the tasks without a hitch. The Fire HD 8 tops out at 3GB (for the plus variant) while the Fire 7 only comes with 2GB of RAM. The Fire HD 10 also has a small advantage in the memory department as it can be purchased with up to 4GB of RAM. The Fire HD 10 is the better performing tablet in this comparison, but the Fire HD 8 and the Fire 7 are equally capable when it comes to day-to-day tasks. The Fire HD 8 and the Fire 7 tablets both come with a quad-core MediaTek MT8168 chipset with an ARM Mali-G52 3EE MC1 GPU.

The Amazon Fire HD 10 gets the octa-core MediaTek MT8183 chipset with ARM Mali-G72 MP3 GPU. The Fire 7 is the most budget-friendly option whereas the Fire HD 8 meets in the middle as far as the specs are concerned.Īll three tablets in this comparison are powered by a MediaTek chipset. Looking at the specs table, it's safe to say that the Fire HD 10 comes with a lot more bells and whistles compared to the other two tablets in the lineup.

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