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.
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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?
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.
Me too, and I've never had an issue juggling those apps on my Pixel 6 with 8gb RAM.
At that point I go to my PC.
Adding to what others said it is beneficial to load an app from RAM.
- Loads faster for user convenience
- Lower power usage so you'll have better battery life
- More RAM reduces disk writes for cache / temporary files / from cold started apps that could write to storage.
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.
I think it’s more to do with app switching without having to reload or losing your state in minimized apps.
If this is enabled by default it'll certainly be needed, especially in cases like multitasking.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/08/adding-16-kb-page-size-to-android.html?m=1
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.
Ooh I understand that it's for AI, I just meant that more RAM would certainly help in this case.
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I assume 13GB shared with all active apps and not 13 per app.
I know how RAM works
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.
I agree about that but it's stupid that you only have access to 13 of 16 GB.
If there's no way to disable the LLM then yes, I agree.
Barely enough for the OS and one app