Did some quick Googling to make sure I wasn't just out of the loop on this, as far as I can tell they are not the same: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5025
> As such, on their 120hz devices, requestAnimationFrame is throttled to 60hz, whereas CSS animations run at 120hz.
Please let me know if I am misunderstanding, it has been a few years since I've done this type of work.