• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    2 months 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.

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        2 months 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.

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          2 months ago

          Me too, and I’ve never had an issue juggling those apps on my Pixel 6 with 8gb RAM.

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            2 months ago

            I think it’s likely you would have access to all of it because the testing in the article clearly shows the kernel can see the memory. Thus, the graphene kernel should be able to use it.

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          2 months 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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            2 months ago

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