• @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      6726 days ago

      They have 16GB of RAM physically, 3GB is reserved for AI. So yeah, only 13GB is usable by regular apps, even if you don’t care about any of the AI stuff.

        • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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          3426 days ago

          So then why does it have 16GB?

          Have you noticed how expensive these things have gotten? Doesn’t it seems like charging you for more RAM than it necessary and then locking 20% of it away for “features” no one wants is a bad thing?

        • @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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          2526 days ago

          It’s not about a single app, it’s about multitasking without having to reload apps.

          At various times I’ve juggled between 4 apps at once on my phone. Say something like Messaging, Firefox, maybe a lemmy app, and Bitwarden for logging into something.

        • @seang96@spgrn.com
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          1926 days ago

          Adding to what others said it is beneficial to load an app from RAM.

          1. Loads faster for user convenience
          2. Lower power usage so you’ll have better battery life
          3. More RAM reduces disk writes for cache / temporary files / from cold started apps that could write to storage.
          • @catloaf@lemm.ee
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            626 days ago

            Yeah but… I have a Pixel 6 with 8gb RAM. I just checked the memory usage. Over the past day, average usage has been about 4gb. And the biggest user is Android itself at 1.8gb. The next biggest is Instagram at 285mb, and that’s with me scrolling videos when I’m bored.

            Adding hardware just for the sake of it just means it’s costing people for features they almost certainly won’t use.

          • @cron@feddit.org
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            526 days ago

            When Android uses this larger page size, we observe an overall performance boost of 5-10% while using ~9% additional memory.

            From the linked article. So I doubt that the larger page size is the (only) reason for 16G ram. AI is the more likely reason.

            • @Unreliable@lemmy.ml
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              226 days ago

              Ooh I understand that it’s for AI, I just meant that more RAM would certainly help in this case.

    • slazer2au
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      726 days ago

      I assume 13GB shared with all active apps and not 13 per app.

          • DarkThoughts
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            826 days ago

            Yes. Lots of people here have much less than even 13GB physical ram. My Pixel 4a has 6GB. So reading a news about how apps have “only” access to 13GB sounds just weird when that’s more than twice the total ram you have available.

            • @lud@lemm.ee
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              326 days ago

              I agree about that but it’s stupid that you only have access to 13 of 16 GB.