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TL24

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I have an X and have been running iOS 12 since B1.

iOS 12 B1 was excellent, super speedy and the only bug I ran into was the black FT screen after the call ended. Once B2 came out I immediately upgraded and noticed that the overall feel of my X seems to have slowed down? I even ran Geekbench numerous times and I can confirm that I'm getting about 1xxx points less in multi-core performance.

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Any suggestions?
 

akash.nu

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What are you really doing to be using multiple cores while using the device day to day?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 

TL24

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What are you really doing to be using multiple cores while using the device day to day?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh it's not a big deal to me, just wondering if others have experienced this as well. Like I said, I know it's BETA but I was just wondering if anyone else had similar results after updating to B2.

This doesn't hinder my experience with iOS 12 at all, it's miles better than iOS 11 in overall performance.
 

tjleonard

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Make sure you give it a few days before trying to test the score. It was slower for me to start, but seems as fast if not faster than beta 1.
 

Banglazed

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I disagree
 

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bbates123

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Agree with the OP. My compute score went down quite a bit from B1 to B2 but still about "average" for iPhone X. I would have expected it to get better with each successive beta release and this went quite a bit backwards.
 
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TwitchyPuppy

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Agree with the OP. My compute score went down quite a bit from B1 to B2 but still about "average" for iPhone X. I would have expected it to get better with each successive beta release and this went quite a bit backwards.

I don't have such expectations, because Beta. The experience can really go like a rollercoaster until the official build is released.
 

acorntoy

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Why do people think that synthetic benchmarks will tell if the software is actually faster? These measure just plain processor power. (Which is why some androids can score incredibly high and still be buggy and slow if the software sucks)
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?page=6&q=iPhone+X

If you look at the benchmarks they’ve stayed the in the same exact range.
Apple hasn’t changed the frequency or anything on the chip itself, benchmarks should be basically the same accounting for normal variations. The real change is how the core software is utilizing the power shown in the benchmarks in day to day tasks.
 
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TL24

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Why do people think that synthetic benchmarks will tell if the software is actually faster? These measure just plain processor power. (Which is why some androids can score incredibly high and still be buggy and slow if the software sucks)
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?page=6&q=iPhone+X

If you look at the benchmarks they’ve stayed the in the same exact range.
Apple hasn’t changed the frequency or anything on the chip itself, benchmarks should be basically the same accounting for normal variations. The real change is how the core software is utilizing the power shown in the benchmarks in day to day tasks.

It won't and we know that, I'm simply implying that I'm seeing lowered results. I can also tell B2 is slightly slower than B1 on MY device.
 

acorntoy

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It won't and we know that, I'm simply implying that I'm seeing lowered results. I can also tell B2 is slightly slower than B1 on MY device.


Ah I guess then I was a bit confused. I feel like B2 Is if anything better on my 12.9 2nd gen, don’t have it on the 8+ so cant comment there.

Like I said though the scores are well within the X’s normal range.
 
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