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[EternalSunshine1976]

Got the 1 TB M4 model from Costco at a steal ($899) with the nano etched glass to get the extra processors and extra ram, thinking this will be able to run games amazingly.

However, that is not the case. I'm playing with a controller, not touch, and honestly this has been super disappointing. On the iPad Pro M4, the game just feels stuck around 30 FPS. You can get 60, but only if you drop the resolution hard, and then everything starts looking soft and ugly. That trade-off feels insane on a once flagship iPad that costs this much.

What shocks me is that the M4 should absolutely smoke the Steam Deck. The Deck's chip is basically 2021 tech. The M4 is a 2024 flagship with way better CPU and GPU on paper. There's no world where RE2 should feel smoother on a Steam Deck than on Apple's top-end tablet… yet here we are. I was thinking the RE Engine would be amazing on iOS, but no, not really.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Got the 1 TB M4 model from Costco at a steal ($899) with the nano etched glass, thinking this will be able to run games amazingly.

However, that is not the case. I'm playing with a controller, not touch, and honestly this has been super disappointing. On the iPad Pro M4 (1TB), the game just feels stuck around 30 FPS. You can get 60, but only if you drop the resolution hard, and then everything starts looking soft and ugly. That trade-off feels insane on a once flagship iPad that costs this much.

What shocks me is that the M4 should absolutely smoke the Steam Deck. The Deck's chip is basically 2021 tech. The M4 is a 2024 flagship with way better CPU and GPU on paper. There's no world where RE2 should feel smoother on a Steam Deck than on Apple's top-end tablet… yet here we are. I was thinking the RE Engine would be amazing on iOS, but no, not really.

I played RE Village on my iPhone 15 Pro Max and thought it played decent. Few frame drops here and there and battery that wanted to overheat with every step. For a mobile I thought it did decent. I used an xbone gamepad with a clip holder for the iphone.
I wonder if the RE2 remake is more graphically advanced?

 

[Danjin44]

I have no concept of anyone would choose play games like RE2R or any game on iPad……unless you have no gaming device.

But then I see the price for top end iPad and if someone can effort that then they also effort to buy proper gaming device.

 

[EternalSunshine1976]

I played RE Village on my iPhone 15 Pro Max and thought it played decent. Few frame drops here and there and battery that wanted to overheat with every step. For a mobile I thought it did decent. I used an xbone gamepad with a clip holder for the iphone.
I wonder if the RE2 remake is more graphically advanced?

Definitely not. RE Village is much more intensive. I was just expecting 60fps, because the Xbox One could play RE2 at 60fps eight years ago.. I think. Pretty disappointing, but I guess Capcom didn't want to spend the money on optimizing it to a market that was likely miniscule.... I mean how many people buy $40 games on an iPad?

 

[EternalSunshine1976]

I have no concept of anyone would choose play games like RE2R or any game on iPad……unless you have no gaming device.

But then I see the price for top end iPad and if someone can effort that then they also effort to buy proper gaming device.

It was just a fun experiment. I don't game on it. I actually use it for productivity, and my photography / editing. That said, I set up Retroarch, and it is simply the best emulation experience ever! When I play TATE games, the system automatically switches orientation when flipped, and the controls do so as well. Loving me some old shooters, and Genesis games.

I have Steam Deck and a Switch 2.. but for the price of the Ipad Pro M4, and how Apple touts "console level" performance, I thought it would run RE2 remake well. As I said, my Xbox One from like eight years ago did a better job, and that is shocking.

 

[Danjin44]

It was just a fun experiment. I don't game on it. I actually use it for productivity, and my photography / editing. That said, I set up Retroarch, and it is simply the best emulation experience ever! When I play TATE games, the system automatically switches orientation when flipped, and the controls do so as well. Loving me some old shooters, and Genesis games.

I have Steam Deck and a Switch 2.. but for the price of the Ipad Pro M4, and how Apple touts "console level" performance, I thought it would run RE2 remake well. As I said, my Xbox One from like eight years ago did a better job, and that is shocking.

How much game like RE2R cost to buy on iPad? Is it full priced?

 

[EternalSunshine1976]

How much game cost to buy on iPad? Is it full priced?

$40... but I didn't pay that. It gives you the first part of the game, and requires in-app purchases to unlock the rest. I'm definitely, not biting.

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

Something something Switch 2 is shit handheld hardware for the price something something.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Got the 1 TB M4 model from Costco at a steal ($899) with the nano etched glass to get the extra processors and extra ram, thinking this will be able to run games amazingly.

However, that is not the case. I'm playing with a controller, not touch, and honestly this has been super disappointing. On the iPad Pro M4, the game just feels stuck around 30 FPS. You can get 60, but only if you drop the resolution hard, and then everything starts looking soft and ugly. That trade-off feels insane on a once flagship iPad that costs this much.

What shocks me is that the M4 should absolutely smoke the Steam Deck. The Deck's chip is basically 2021 tech. The M4 is a 2024 flagship with way better CPU and GPU on paper. There's no world where RE2 should feel smoother on a Steam Deck than on Apple's top-end tablet… yet here we are. I was thinking the RE Engine would be amazing on iOS, but no, not really.

The resolution difference between those two devices is gigantic.

Also I do not think there is an ipad native version of RE2 Remake its a "one size fits all devices" build so the issue may be with the app itself not the performance of the hardware on the device; but it also runs poorly on a macbook pro. I tend to agree/think this is an optimization issue on capcoms end not a failing of the apple hardware.

I know it can be a very performant device, I am using an old ipad pro m2 device and have a few emulators sideloaded and it crushes those without breaking a sweat.

 

[Tobimacoss]

Would be better off streaming it.

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www.xbox.com

 

[Gamer79]

 

[Danjin44]

$40... but I didn't pay that. It gives you the first part of the game, and requires in-app purchases to unlock the rest. I'm definitely, not biting.

If that's the case then I don't understand who's this for? People who usually play games on iPads are young kids or people who just want to play mindless mobile games to keep them busy while on a bus or waiting for appointments.

Those people are not willing to spend that much money on a game because gaming is not their hobby. Most people who consider gaming as a hobby already have dedicated gaming devices.

 

[deriks]

M4 is a beast in numbers, and can do a video editing better than PC. Doesn't work great this game because it's not well optimized for it. Maybe the chip per se can't do it.

It's like that everyone knows PS3 is a beast if devs do justice, but 360 took by storm the games because of better hardware design

 

[Brucey]

It was just a fun experiment. I don't game on it. I actually use it for productivity, and my photography / editing. That said, I set up Retroarch, and it is simply the best emulation experience ever! When I play TATE games, the system automatically switches orientation when flipped, and the controls do so as well. Loving me some old shooters, and Genesis games.

I have Steam Deck and a Switch 2.. but for the price of the Ipad Pro M4, and how Apple touts "console level" performance, I thought it would run RE2 remake well. As I said, my Xbox One from like eight years ago did a better job, and that is shocking.

Apple marketing....

 

[EternalSunshine1976]

Would be better off streaming it.

Buy RESIDENT EVIL 2 | Xbox

A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.

www.xbox.com

Good idea. I'm going to try Nvidia Go or whatever that's call. Own RE2 on Steam, so it should run fine.

 

[Tobimacoss]

Good idea. I'm going to try Nvidia Go or whatever that's call. Own RE2 on Steam, so it should run fine.

Do you own it on Xbox One as well? Because it's Play Anywhere, and would work with both xCloud and GFN.

Anyways, use this site to see which games are on which service.

Resident Evil 2 Cloud Gaming | Where to Play

See where you can play Resident Evil 2 on cloud gaming services. Availability is verified every 2 hours. Compare options and start playing.

cloudbase.gg

If you have Amazon Prime, the game is included on Amazon Luna as well. Prime includes Luna Standard for free.

 

[onQ123]

1 is a gaming device & the other is a tablet

 

[Moses85]

Gaming on a mobile Phone ?

 

[neocycle]

Sorry but you could have researched this.
The m4 gpu is 3 times weaker than the steam machine gpu and it has no fan.

Edit: Sorry, thought this was about steam machine, not steam deck.

 

[EternalSunshine1976]

Sorry but you could have researched this.
The m4 gpu is 3 times weaker than the steam machine gpu and it has no fan.

Are you sure? I'll definitely agree that it doesn't have a fan... but what I see is Steam Deck = 1.6 TFLOPS Apple M4 = 4.3 TFLOPS

Performance: The Apple M4 GPU outperforms the Steam Deck GPU by 227% based on aggregate benchmark results

 

[diffusionx]

it seems ok to me based on this video but I dunno

 

[EternalSunshine1976]

it seems ok to me based on this video but I dunno

I deleted it already, but perhaps I didn't have some setting set properly? It ran 30FPS for me, and then when I scaled down the resolution and used the Metal FX it ran at 60fps, but at like 1/3 the regular resolution.

 

[Spukc]

I love apple..
but that nano etched glass

 

[Coloress_Kafka]

The steam deck has active cooling that also smells amazing the iPad has passive cooling. I don't think Apple has ever claimed sustained performance of the M series chips in anything with passive cooling.

This is why I forked over more money for the base MacBook Pro vs getting a MacBook Air.

 

[LordOcidax]

Thermals…

 

[EternalSunshine1976]

I love apple..
but that nano etched glass

I thought so too, until I tried it.. Didn't pay any extra for it, but it's damn nice in almost all lighting settings, but especially in daylight, bright areas.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

The M4 would be a beast if it supported Vulcan and active cooling. Apple is artificially holding it back by putting it an oven and forcing devs to use Metal.

A properly supported M4 powered handheld would slay.

 

[Panajev2001a]

The M4 would be a beast if it supported Vulcan and active cooling. Apple is artificially holding it back by putting it an oven and forcing devs to use Metal.

A properly supported M4 powered handheld would slay.

I have not heard a competent dev criticise Metal as an API yet. Do not know it? There are Metal compat layers for Vulkan if that is the problem. Capcom has the resources to have a good Metal backend considering the billions of devices running Metal.

 

[Radical_3d]

M chips are designed to the Apple niche of productivity, where they Blas through the most challenging task with dedicated hardware. But they are not very good GPU. A passively cooled M chip probably throttles to Xbox One level performance or even lower after 2 minutes running a high end game. And then you ask such XBox One to render on a 2K canvas.

I play Civ VI mainly on my iPad Air 4, tho.

 

[RoboFu]

It has ray tracing and runs in a much higher resolution than the game on steam deck. You are crazy if you think it's worse.

 

[lastmessiah]

The Steam Deck's display and resolution are extremely inferior to that of the iPad, it is pushing far fewer pixels.

 

[Jibran#one]

Just wait a few more months for emulation on android we are almost there now
Full PC emulation in the palm of ur hands
Just need a little bit more tweaking of drivers now

 

[EternalSunshine1976]

The Steam Deck's display and resolution are extremely inferior to that of the iPad, it is pushing far fewer pixels.

I'm definitely, or was, not running RE2 at the native iPad screen resolution. Far from it, it was below the Steam Deck's 800p resolution and chugging. Look, I would love it if it performed well! I would love to be able to play RE2 on that beautiful OLED screen, ain't happening unfortunately, as it runs terribly.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

An iPad will thermal throttle to performance death after 30 seconds

Try it on a MacBook Pro M4 for better results

 

[Madserb2023]

It doesn't have a fan. That's really all there is to it regarding the Ipad. However, in general gaming performance on Apple devices isn't great. Even on a top of the range Mac Studio performance isn't good considering the price.

 

[poodaddy]

I love apple..
but that nano etched glass

I hate Apple, far worse than any other company in tech.

Also, laughing at nano etched glass though.

On topic: Apple and gaming, never shall the two mix.

 

[Nvzman]

It doesn't have a fan. That's really all there is to it regarding the Ipad. However, in general gaming performance on Apple devices isn't great. Even on a top of the range Mac Studio performance isn't good considering the price.

Yea this is the thread summed up in a nutshell.

Doesn't matter how good your hardware is, doesn't matter about specs, if you have thermal throttling, it's basically irrelevant, it's never going to perform up to its maximum potential. The Switch 2 and Steam Deck could be plugged in for hours playing games without any game issues, whereas phones and tablets are going to shit out from thermals within 30 minutes.

 

[Lucie Goosey]

The Steam Deck's display and resolution are extremely inferior to that of the iPad, it is pushing far fewer pixels.

This needs to be said, in addition to thermals and being a good port and optimized well.