Minecraft doesn't run very well on my iPad Mini 5. I get frame drops below 20fps even on the lowest render distance (8 chunks).
What's worse is that my older iPad 5 (2017) ran the game at a much higher fps at 14 chunks.
I think it's mainly due to loading new chunks but a high end iPad should not be experiencing this issue.
The iPad Mini 5 has the Apple A12 Bionic chip and has 2 high-performance cores and 4 high-efficiency cores. I'm thinking that the game may be running on the high-efficiency cores rather then the high-performance cores. That might be what's causing fps drops.
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– Minecraft: Bedrock Edition — Gear VR, iOS, Android, Windows 10 (from the Windows store), Xbox One, Windows 10 Mobile, Fire TV, Nintendo Switch, and PS4
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