Found this passage in Apples Core Data Documentation:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/FaultingandUniquing.html
When a fault is fired, Core Data does not go back to the store if the data is available in its cache. With a cache hit, converting a fault into a realized managed object is very fast—it is basically the same as normal instantiation of a managed object. If the data is not available in the cache, Core Data automatically executes a fetch for the fault object; this results in a round trip to the persistent store to fetch the data, and again the data is cached in memory.
For my understanding it basically says that doing a fetchrequest manually and accessing the fault data is not a big difference when the concerning data wasn't available in cache yet.