I think you messed up the quotes, most of those aren't mine. Only the top 2 are mines. About first teraflops, I didn't bring it up it was the other dude. And about the fortnite comparison, the switch clearly wins overall proving it has higher sustained gpu performance, but ofc only slightly. Yes iphone X won resolution but it was very minor (something like 3% more pixels) as switch only supports 720p.

We don't know the flops for apple devices, but I made a post about this before. We know the huawei mate 20 have 489 gigaflops and this ipad pro will have about 4x the gpu performance compared to the huawei mate 20. This obviously means the ipad pro does indeed have a very high gigaflops number, probably between 1000-2000 gigaflops. Ofc this won't be sustainable gpu performance. Hopefully digitalfoundry will do an analysis of that basketball game nba so we can get an idea. But I'm guessing it will be less than half of xbox one s.

sounds great until i know its an apple product.

rather have a gaming laptop for the price they charge for a couple $100 more. and not stuck on a shitty charge for everything app store.

rather stick with my switch for portability.

Despite the pretty graphics, you are getting a massively watered down version of the game compared to what is on console.  As far as I can tell, it doesn't have the My League or My GM modes present in the console games.  (Meanwhile, the Nintendo Switch version, which can also be played portably has all of the features present in the Xbox One and PS4 versions):

The bad

Our biggest frustration with NBA 2K19 is the onscreen controls and its lack of options. Annoyingly, you can’t enlarge the virtual joysticks and buttons this year, and there’s no option to use past control schemes like the one in NBA 2K16. Of course, if you have the hardware, you can use a physical controller, but it doesn’t solve the problem of the game’s fixed default controller layout.

The in-game presentation of NBA 2K19 hasn’t changed a bit, meaning it’s still thin and occasionally buggy. You can’t replay portions of any game you play in — a huge omission for a sports title, if we’re being honest.

The voice acting is a copy-and-paste job from last year and can get repetitive quickly. Worse still, the audio commentary will sometimes drop out altogether during matches. Commentary featuring TV analyst Doris Burke, in particular, disappears after a few phrases.

And while it sure looks better and more accurate than its predecessor, the weird texture issues from last year that appear on players wearing compression shirts under their jerseys, frustratingly, also carry over. Coaches remain an afterthought in the graphics department, though their character models are not as awful at higher graphics settings.

Finally, there’s the MyCareer mode, which is a big deal for the console and PC releases of NBA 2K19, though it has been watered down in the mobile version.

The narrative is good at establishing a purpose for playing through the opening chapters. But without cutscenes and spoken dialogue to push the journey along, this MyCareer experience feels hollow and less than engaging. Oh well, there’s always local multiplayer and Challenge mode to sink our time into.

    https://www.revu.com.ph/2018/10/nba-2k19-mobile-ios-android-review/

You can also watch the NBA2K19 demo ... it looks pretty damn close to the PS4/XB1S versions.

So it's not just "a stripped down version that they're running at almost 4K resolution", it's pretty much the same game being run at almost 4K resolution at 60 frames per second. 

It definitely looks better than the Switch version. This isn't like your Fortnite example at all, it would be like Fortnite if the iOS version looked like the PS4/XB1 version at a full 60 fps + anti-aliasing + 2.5x higher resolution than the base XBox One S model. 

Beating or matching the XBox One S is significant, it likely means a whole new class of games are theoretically possibly on a mobile chip that runs off battery power. Unfortunately Apple probably won't ease their game size restrictions, but there are other implications, like Nvidia probably is not far behind or at all behind, they could probably give Nintendo a chip of this caliber by next year or 2020 certainly. That's where things get interesting. 

That's irrelevant because nobody uses an iPad the same way as a home console. Very sad Apple.

But......makes me wonder if Apple's trying to take a jab at Microsoft because Microsoft's Surface products doing well, and all Apple can compare it to is MS 5 year old home console that doesn't even function the same, rather than comparing it to MS's Surface Pro tablet? lol

I don't understand why people underestimate Apple and others ability to make money off a new market. If mobile class chips are starting to meet and exceed console current console specs then its only a matter of time before they monetize it. They can easily make a handheld base on this chip set with an app store dedicated to console games (its not like people are not used to downloading games GBs at a time).

Pretty sure this Apple A12X chip handily outperforms what's in a Surface tablet. That's why they're comparing it to full blown lap tops and game consoles ... the point is "it's not just a tablet processor", they want people to understand that this is a performance class above that. 

Now whether or not anyone really needs that much power in a tablet is debatable, but the chip being impressive is not. 

It probably could be put into MacBook Pro laptops honestly, I think the hold up there is they need that x86 compatibility for now, but a lot of tech sites are saying Apple is eventually planning to just use their own chips even in laptops/Macs and phase out AMD/Intel entirely. 

A12X is turning heads. Who cares about games lol. That photoshop demo was delicious to watch. Can't wait to see Affinity photo on it.

People start changing the subject a lot don't they? The question at hand is, "Is the iPad Pro as fast as an Xbox One?

Answer is, yes pretty much. iPad pro GPU is 3x faster than the iPhone X GPU, so it isn't that surprising. Weird to see all these "I doubt it", "they're lying" "it throttles" "can't game on an ipad". Yeah none of that is the topic. They're not lying, technology moves forward, with 7nm and a more expensive price, they have tripled the GPU speed vs what you could buy in mobile 2 months ago. Tablets don't throttle much compared to phones. And I won't buy an iPad and won't game on the iPad, but clearly nVidia can match Apple's GPU (but not their CPU), so it does set a new ceiling for mobile GPU performance. Xbox One is in reach this year, never mind next year.

Also I've seen these weird comments multiple times, about why is Apple comparing to the old Xbox instead of the Microsoft Surface? That should be obvious. The Xbox One has a much more powerful GPU than the Surface. No point in comparing the iPad GPU vs the Surface GPU, because they aren't even in the same league. iPad GPU is multiple times faster. Apple also just added all the nVidia type features, the memory compression and the tessellation engine.

I really wish nVidia or AMD or even Intel would bring the same excitement. Apple's silicon is moving ahead much faster than the other companies, largely because the cellphone business is so competitive and brutal. Think about it, the new Macbook Air has half the multi-core speed of the iPad Pro... I'd much rather have the iPad pro running Mac OS X than buy a Macbook.