At what point does connection speed exceed browser rendering capabilities?

[pete6032]

So on my phone when I have 4G, I can hit speeds of 25/10. This makes me wonder, if the only thing I do is surf the Web and watch YouTube videos and listen to music, at what point does my experience essentially "max out" due to the rendering capability of my phone's browser? Can a snapdragon 600 on Chrome really render faster with a 25/10 connection as opposed to 10/2? Anyone know? Obviously it depends on a lot of variables: ping, processor, screen resolution, browser, etc but just curious if the bottleneck in mobile is really the connection or rendering power.

 

[paperwastage]

too many factors to say for certain, but I would put latency and connection speed in the same "top" bucket of importance... if your RTT takes >500ms, it'll be slow and annoying. if your connection speed is <5mbps, images/videos will load slower

youtube doesn't precache the entire video when you click on it - it only loads a little at a time