Tested: Google's Pixel 9 Pro models only have 13GB RAM for apps
Tested: Google's Pixel 9 Pro models only have 13GB RAM for apps
Google's new Pixel 9 Pro models reserve part of their 16GB RAM exclusively for AI features. I figured out how much.
If apps and the OS weren’t such ram/storage hogs, this would be plenty. Like does the Home Depot app really need half a gig or more? 🙄
id imagine some apps are just running on electron or some microbrowser, so theyre fuctionally browsers and come with some of the memory penalties from running with said sdks. not many conpanies want to design something from the bottom up.
It’s shitty coding and the app stores should reject this garbage and tell the dev to ship it as a web app. If you’re going to ship an entire web browser with every app, then what’s the point of it being an app?
See also apps that bundle twenty different frameworks and then use maybe one or two percent of what’s bundled. 🙄
I presume if you run a custom ROM it would not reserve the RAM in this way
Not sure, it could be allocated in the firmware, kind of like integrated GPUs on desktop/laptop processors. For example my Amd 6800HS laptop with 16GB RAM has only 14 available because the GPU takes up 2GB (but I can change it in BIOS)
I was going to say NBD, 3GB is a decent bit for the OS, but 13 should be fine for anything you want on your phone.
But most of it is for shitty LLM nonsense? Fuck that.
Damn. I wonder if a custom OS remove this “feature”…
And? I have six total and I've never seen it go above 4 used
What are people doing on their phones that could use so much ram?