iphone vs ipad what is more powerful?

JarredFeutrill · March 31

Is the iPhone se 2020 more powerful than the apple ipad 7th 32gb?

jaslion · March 31

The se has the better specs but both devices are for entirely different purposes.

The se will run a slower a13 due to heat constraints that will show lesser in an ipad.

What is the usecase? Keep in mind 32gb is very small for some games

flibberdipper · March 31

37 minutes ago, jaslion said:

The se has the better specs but both devices are for entirely different purposes.

The se will run a slower a13 due to heat constraints that will show lesser in an ipad.

What is the usecase? Keep in mind 32gb is very small for some games

32GB isn't even really small for just games, it's just small in general. My 15 Pro Max only has Pokemon GO on it as far as games go, and if we subtract downloaded music I'm sitting at 68GB used.

That being said, the SE2 will pretty much universally run laps around a 7th gen iPad. A significantly faster chip (Geekbench 6 puts the SE2 at literally twice the performance as the 7th gen iPad, though I think real-world it's more like 60-70%) with a lower resolution screen makes it a pretty one-sided battle. Not to mention the A13 keeps its cool pretty well even in the SE, whereas the A10 was a hot little fucker.

Alex Atkin UK · March 31

1 minute ago, flibberdipper said:

32GB isn't even really small for just games, it's just small in general. My 15 Pro Max only has Pokemon GO on it as far as games go, and if we subtract downloaded music I'm sitting at 68GB used.

That being said, the SE2 will pretty much universally run laps around a 7th gen iPad. A significantly faster chip (Geekbench 6 puts the SE2 at literally twice the performance as the 7th gen iPad, though I think real-world it's more like 60-70%) with a lower resolution screen makes it a pretty one-sided battle. Not to mention the A13 keeps its cool pretty well even in the SE, whereas the A10 was a hot little fucker.

Indeed one problem with Geekbench is the tests aren't long enough to show thermal throttling, so it can really show artificially inflated numbers for devices that are thermally challenged.

flibberdipper · March 31

On 3/30/2024 at 10:15 PM, Alex Atkin UK said:

Indeed one problem with Geekbench is the tests aren't long enough to show thermal throttling, so it can really show artificially inflated numbers for devices that are thermally challenged.

Honestly I think the iPad would do worse in that aspect. I have both an iPhone 7 and an SE2 so I've got both chips in question: The iPhone 7 got hot enough to where it wasn't comfortable to hold just by leaving the camera recording 4K30 for an extended duration (and as such got so hot the display dimmed, so you KNOW that bitch was throttling), and the SE2 has only ever gotten warm at best no matter what torture I've put it through. Sure glass isn't a great heat conductor, but the 7 would noticeably throttle just using it normally and the SE2 doesn't.