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Originally Posted by dangonay
Ran the usual benchmarks on iOS 8 and compared them to iOS 7 on my iPad Air. Overall, the iOS 8 beta is running about 3-4% faster than iOS 7 did with one benchmark coming in at 2% slower and the rest anywhere from equal to 8% faster.
Not a huge increase in speed, but pretty good as I would expect a beta to actually run slower.
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Performance within an app is one thing, but how about when apps have to load and swap a lot of information into RAM. Switching between apps almost always requires the app to be restarted in ios7, is that the case with 8? Also games designed for newer devices will have problems continuing to run on the air or ipad 2, since they run out of memory quickly. Does 8 help solve that, or does it make it worse?
Benchmarks are one thing, a great way to show off hardware performance. However real world performance is another issue all together. The only apps that run decently on ios on older hardware like the air and ipad 2 are the integrated apps. Anything not integrated will have these issues. Which sucks for me, because I prefer to use pocketcasts over podcasts, gmail over the email app, and chrome over safari. But the combination of those 3 apps renders the ipad 2 unusable for task switching, and extremely slow within the apps. It would be great if ios 8 helped, but I have a feeling it's just going to make things worse, and will probably deprecate even newer hardware like the iphone 5 and ipad retina.