If you thought the 12 to 16GB of RAM offered with most flagship Android devices today is enough
You’re wrong, I thought 6 to 8GB of RAM were enough. I’m still rocking my OnePlus 5, and seeing their last few years I don’t think I’ll get another OnePlus smartphone.
If you need more RAM on a smartphone than on a laptop, you’re doing something wrong. You can’t solve everything by just adding more RAM
Is there any actual benefit for so much RAM in a phone? Outside of a higher number for marketing and increasing the price?
And does this also increase power consumption or is there any benefit to more RAM that counteracts that?
Personally i am still waiting for phones to become proper desktop replacements, in which case i’d maybe see more use in this. They already have more than enough performance for the average user, since 9/10 people probably just browse the web and do some general office work.
Emulation, some switch games require 12GB of ram, advanced computational photography(HDR+, super night mode, etc), running those AI models locally on your device (think chatgpt, or something other model for audio, pictures, etc) 6 and 8GB are no longer enough. I run into multi tasking and app reload issues with 6GB of ram, if i disable samsung’s ram plus. But, for the average user 8 and 12 should be sufficient.
As for your question regarding power consumption, it could be more. But, it could also be negated by reduced app reloads. I wouldn’t worry about power consumption. Your display, network modem, and the SoC are one of the biggest sources of battery drain. Ram hardly adds much to the equation.
I can maybe see it for running an incredibly skimmed down open source LLM, but even then RAM isn’t the biggest limitation. That’s just such a bizarrely niche use case. Almost nobody needs 24GB of RAM in their phone right now. Emulation is a niche case I can see being a little more reasonable. Still insane.
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You’re wrong, I thought 6 to 8GB of RAM were enough. I’m still rocking my OnePlus 5, and seeing their last few years I don’t think I’ll get another OnePlus smartphone.
If you need more RAM on a smartphone than on a laptop, you’re doing something wrong. You can’t solve everything by just adding more RAM
Ahh yes. I can run a few more chrome tabs.
This is just “big numbers better.” I can run a lot of apps on 16Gb RAM in pc, why would a small one can’t?
When a phone has more RAM than an Nvidia card, 4090 not included.
Gotta make it more expensive somehow. And while we’re at it let’s remove some more customization options.
Is there any actual benefit for so much RAM in a phone? Outside of a higher number for marketing and increasing the price? And does this also increase power consumption or is there any benefit to more RAM that counteracts that?
Personally i am still waiting for phones to become proper desktop replacements, in which case i’d maybe see more use in this. They already have more than enough performance for the average user, since 9/10 people probably just browse the web and do some general office work.
Emulation, some switch games require 12GB of ram, advanced computational photography(HDR+, super night mode, etc), running those AI models locally on your device (think chatgpt, or something other model for audio, pictures, etc) 6 and 8GB are no longer enough. I run into multi tasking and app reload issues with 6GB of ram, if i disable samsung’s ram plus. But, for the average user 8 and 12 should be sufficient.
As for your question regarding power consumption, it could be more. But, it could also be negated by reduced app reloads. I wouldn’t worry about power consumption. Your display, network modem, and the SoC are one of the biggest sources of battery drain. Ram hardly adds much to the equation.
I can maybe see it for running an incredibly skimmed down open source LLM, but even then RAM isn’t the biggest limitation. That’s just such a bizarrely niche use case. Almost nobody needs 24GB of RAM in their phone right now. Emulation is a niche case I can see being a little more reasonable. Still insane.
Pretty much what I think, it’s just bad marketing.
No one need 24gb of ram on a smartphone and only very few on computer.
The benefit is they can run more bloatware in the background
They added a $3 SD card!
Wow
Bold of XDA to assume I’d buy a other OnePlus phone, it’s been all downhill since the 7 Pro…