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SophiaL

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Jan 6, 2019
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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?
 
Sorry, I forgot to mention that. Its the iPad Pro 10.5“ from 2017
 
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.
 
If you compare an iPad Pro from 2018 to an iPhone XS Max from 2018 then yes. The iPhone has an A12 chip while the iPad has an A12X chip.

Plus the iPad has a 120Hz Pro motion display which makes scrolling look very quick compared to iPhones.
 
If you compare an iPad Pro from 2018 to an iPhone XS Max from 2018 then yes. The iPhone has an A12 chip while the iPad has an A12X chip.

Plus the iPad has a 120Hz Pro motion display which makes scrolling look very quick compared to iPhones.
He has an iPhone 8 and an iPad pro 10.5 so A11 and A10X.
 
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?

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?
 
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