The amazon fire hd 8 (2020) has a mediatek mt8168 chipset, which is a processor designed for inexpensive tablets and e-readers, so it’s right at home here. suffice to say the tablet isn’t exactly snappy to use, but with only 2gb ram on board it was never going to be a powerhouse.
there’s a slight delay when you’re navigating the tablet or opening apps, as you’d expect from an inexpensive tablet with a weak chipset, but we encountered the most problems when playing games. there are very few demanding games available in amazon’s ecosystem, but pubg mobile is one, and we experienced issues with lag and crashes when playing it. even hearthstone – a card game – was prone to frequent crashing.
we should also point out that we found the tablet had a little more trouble connecting to the internet than other devices.