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Chrome is less performant and battery efficient on Macs than Safari. Google isn’t going to go out of their way to be more efficient on iOS.

And why aren’t Google’s own phones the fastest Android phones?



Apple produces way better SoCs whereas Google is using Qualcomm or some other crap

Apple's SoCs have huge processor caches which makes quite a big difference

Here's the processor cache sizes for the A16

L1 cache 320 KB per P-core (192 KB instruction + 128 KB data) 224 KB per E-core (128 KB instruction + 96 KB data)

L2 cache 16 MB (performance cores) 4 MB (efficient cores)

Last level cache 24 MB

The L1 / L2 / L3 cache sizes in the Pixel 9 CPU don't appear to be documented but based on previous CPUs I'd bet they aren't going to be very large

Are you seriously saying that you think Chrome on iOS is going to be slower than Chrome on Android?




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