In my application, I've been working to get my fps above 60 in the core animation tool while scrolling my table views on an iPhone 5. My GPU isn't tapping out, and I couldn't really identify anything that sped it up (by commenting things out or deleting views in a nib).
After hours, I finally got curious and started a fresh junk application with nothing but a UITableViewController that just spits out the same cell over and over. I profiled this with 1000 rows while scrolling, and STILL only got in the high 50's.
What am I missing here? There's no way that's correct. It doesn't get any simpler than this straight up table displaying:
I uploaded a barebones app here.
Can someone confirm I'm not crazy?
Update
Is 60fps the max you can get on an iPhone? Will core animation ever go faster than that?