Android @lemdro.id baatliwala @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Tested: Google's Pixel 9 Pro models only have 13GB RAM for apps

www.androidauthority.com 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.

Google Pixel @lemdro.id Nemeski @lemm.ee 5mo ago

www.androidauthority.com /tested-pixel-9-pro-ai-ram-3472624/

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How did google manage to make a version of linux more bloated than windows? It's almost impressive.
- AI bullshit.
  
  And telemetry
- Tbf the high ram usage wouldnt be a problem if it cached processes in it and used it to save battery but its just pure bloat. I think phones should have a coprocessor that handles notifications like what smartwatches do and that basically free battery. But android is also bloated because apps take a very long time to launch because of the jvm and java (thats what i heard at least, idk if this is actually why its slow) so everything is just left active. Also i think android strayed too far from linux, its basically just a worse version with a mobile ui and the support of a country sized company.
Only?
- 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.
  
  Seriously, what app is capable of saturating 13GB?
- I assume 13GB shared with all active apps and not 13 per app.
  
  I know how RAM works
- Barely enough for the OS and one app
Not a big deal.

Wait until you find out how much ram gets wasted in caching and algorithms designed to run faster on computers or improve productivity. Even things like indexing to speed up search or icon caching

It's a mobile phone. 13gb is lots, and I'd be curious to see the extent that ai improves productivity.

The headline is designed explicitly to bait arguments
- The problem is Android is fuckterrible at using RAM properly.
Only? I have just 8 GB RAM on My PC.

And Android device which I am using to comment this have just 2GB RAM.
- Chrome casually using 8gbs with a few tabs open. Also windows 11. I got a school laptop and windows uses 5gb out of the box💀. Linux supremacy.
  
  Chrome using 8gbs ram is not necessarily a bad thing
  
  Usually browsers use a lot because nothing else is using the ram. If you had a separate program running, the browser would stop using as much.
  
  Firefox using way less than that for like 20 tabs…
  
  Your OS is not necessarily using those 8gb, it just reserved them, meaning other apps can still use it
That's insane for so many reasons.
- Reasons such as?
  
  Phones don't need 16 GB of RAM.
  
  That's why it is insane. It is a crazy huge amount of ram that is eaten up like crazy.
16GB of RAM sounded too good to be true. Granted 13GB is nothing for sneeze at still. Hopefully, they can provide an option to toggle it off. Sounds wasteful for people who would use it once a while.
At least the OS seems to know that the additional memory is there. This means root apps or custom ROMs should be able to use all 16GB.
What about the regular 9?
- They only have a few MB reserved for Google's AI, most of the 12GB is free for all apps on other models.
  
  It's 3 gb
- On the Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 9, we note just 0.26GB (275,336KiB) of locked RAM [...], a very small amount most likely used for some background tasks in the OS. However, on the Pixel 9 Pro XL, this leaps to 2.91GB (3,051,936KiB) of Unevictable and Mlocked RAM. Subtract out the Unevictable RAM from the Pixel 9, and there’s an extra 2.64GB (2,776,603KiB) reserved on the Pro models.
  
  Really interesting. I wonder what features the Pro XL has that the Pro version doesn't to use over 10 times more RAM.
My gaming PC has 9

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