I have had my ipad for a while now and recently bought an iPhone 8+. However, I feel like my iPad is a lot faster when it comes to the speed of scrolling, reacting, software bugs and other things. Does anyone else feel this way?
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iPhone 8/Plus Is the iPad faster than the iPhone?
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WRXiceman
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That’s iPad has a ProMotion display so it’s refreshed at 120Hz which may give the illusion of it scrolling and reacting faster.
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sunapple
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Well, on paper, the iPhone is slightly faster in this case. It also has a newer generation of processors. It’s not completely apples and oranges though, the processors of the iPad are different in a number of ways. iPads have to deal with more workload and have a larger screens as well.
The iPad also has the 120Hz display which is noticeable side-by-side.
The iPad also has the 120Hz display which is noticeable side-by-side.
BugeyeSTI
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In terms of fluidity of scrolling and reacting, I agree with other saying that’s the Promotion display of how it’s making you feel that it’s faster, but maybe _not_ in the sense of actually the performance cores in terms of how you’re comparing both with multitasking. Perhaps compare the like of opening applications on both devices, different games, etc for more ‘speed’ variations.
I tried a little (very unscientific) side by side speed test with an iPhone XR, iPad 10.5 Pro and iPad 9.7 2018 that we have at home. The iPad 9.7 2018 is definitely ever so slightly quicker that the iPad 10.5 and iPhone XR. The iPhone XR (by a very, very, slight margin) was actually the slowest. Interesting, I wonder why?