I need to update my old apple iPad Pro and IM planning to switch to samsung ( mostly bcz of the bigger screen and the variety of third party pens ( Wacom one )
Im on a budget … so my two options are a used samsung galaxy tab s8 ultra or should I hang out a bit more gather more money and bite the S9 ultra instead ?
IM planning to use it just for art purposes painting …drawing … so my question is
hardware in mind ’ are there any benefits the newer cpu/gpu of the new s9 ultra or not worth it ?
if its worth . in which areas? bigger brushes after strokes with no lag?
thanks in advance
Following but of no help. I use an s6 lite and it works well enough. Though I feel like a bit more power won’t hurt. I don’t draw very large on it, haven’t tried if it would get slow.
(I prefer a laptop with a basic wacom for most part)
I wish you the best 
interested to see how you like the one you get.
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thanks zabbio,… IM using krita on my desktop pc … but I was thinking to use this tablet (the samsung galaxy tab s ultra) as something like a companion when IM not at home …sometimes I have a couple of illustrations to finish and instead of carrying around a laptop ( and eventually some sort of small portable cintiq like monitor (16’')
I thought samsung ultra will give me the portability I need …
I did something like this using an iPad Pro 12.9 ‘’ so mobile apps are plenty for the work I do… the question is about hardware …
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I would assume the ultra is a lot better than the s6 lite regardless of wjich one you have, but I have no real idea and haven’t tried either of them.
I like my s6 lite though I can see how it could feel too weak. I don’t think the ultras would have the same feel but I don’t know.
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While Android devices are slowly getting a decent amount of RAM, I’d still say it’s the most limiting factor here. Definitely get at least a 12GB version, I’d say.
Seems the S8 Ultra 16GB is still a more expensive than the S9 Ultra 12GB currently, outside of special deals at least. That doesn’t quite seem worth it at the moment, otherwise I’d consider giving up some CPU performance for more RAM.
The SoC of the S9 Ultra is one generation newer, about 20-35% faster in most CPU benchmarks, that’s a decent improvement, but nothing that makes the S8 look obsolete IMHO. The newer GPU with raytracing and the 4x faster AI performance won’t make a difference for Krita, at least currently…then again, I assume you use it for other things too.
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Lynx. thank you it helps hmm no IM not going to use that tablet for anything more … ( YouTube, email… maybe a funny low game and that’s it …) knowing krita will benefit much a lot having more ram that’s useful… I saw infinite painter on a s8 ultra ( I can’t say how much ram it had -I bet 8gb) … but was able to move very smoothly 1000px oily blending brush.
ok thanks for the good info .
Well I won’t promise huge smudge brushes are smooth, as the smudge engine is still not multithreaded. But that also means the additional “medium performance” core of the S9 won’t help here, it all comes down to the difference of the fastest core basically, which is about 20% or so. I’m afraid neither can really touch the performance of Apple’s current ARM cores…but then again they at least can compete with some older desktop CPUs many of us are still using.
The reason why I’d consider more RAM over 20-30% CPU performance is because, especially on Android, RAM is more or less a hard limit. If your image (or animation) takes too much, Krita will collapse. A slower CPU “just” makes things more laggy…
Now with 8GB you can get pretty far at 4k resolution if you don’t go crazy on layers, but if you want to be able to open another heavy Krita file without closing the current one, it could be too much, the OS also needs some of the 8GB RAM for itself (and other apps) after all.
At least I do that somewhat regularly, either because I’m not happy with some change and restore layers from a previous stage (I save incremental quite a lot), or because I want to check how I did something in a previous project.
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