A8 Chip From 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Appears to Carry 1 GB of RAM

[Sparky2012]

Like other people have said, I also hope that Apple release a cheaper model of the iPhone 6 with 16gb and 1gb ram as well as two iPhone 6 models with 64/128gb storage and 2gb ram.

This is what I hope will happen but tbh phones that are marketed as high end should not be coming with 1gb in 2014. 2gb + is now the standard or it should be! We may not need 2gb ram today but in a year or two, we will really notice the small 1gb of ram.

 

[CJM]

Gotta have something to hold back for people buying the 6S!

 

[randian]

Gotta have something to hold back for people buying the 6S!

This makes no sense if you think about it. Wouldn't Apple be better off getting the sale right now than getting it a year from now?

 

[Hattig]

1GB of RAM would be really stingy, even for the lower end model, in this day and age.

It's one of the advertised differentiators between phones. If it's true, competitors will have their jobs simplified. The other aspect is installed storage, and 16GB is not high end these days - 32GB seems to be the new standard for decent phones.

So hopefully this means that either the next A8 SoC has two 1GB POP components installed on it, or that this is an early A8 sample chip that doesn't represent final shipping product.

 

[6r4ff3r]

I'm watching this thread with only 256 Mb on iPod touch and didn't crash tapatalk

A good programmer try to code efficiently and make own apps consuming less resources possible.

If efficiency is the way to go, why put more RAM and wasting more energy?

 

[oopsroger]

Can you people at MR ban this guy forever?

I mean, if he doesn't understand that we do not have better/more complex/more advanced apps because Apple doesn't use more RAM, if he doesn't understand that people are still using phones from 2010 (iPhone 4. It was sold not long ago. So support is mandatory, and one of Apple's best features), if doesn't understand that the tech is there with 0 drawback, f he doesn't understand that this is an intentional move to cripple the device and make more money RIGHT NOW (it will bite them in the ass, later), he shouldn't be allowed to post on any public forum.

There isn't room for debate about this matter. The 1 GB of RAM already is the bottleneck on the iPhone 5 (the a6 has power to spare), not to mention the 5s (the a7 is always sleeping, there's nothing that could take advantage of it without exceeding the RAM limit too.).

This will hit the whole industry, even other OSes, because Devs are the same and they won't do anything without iOS's support. It will slow evolution of software.

I'm ok about saying that iOS is more efficient and doesn't need as many resources, but that has always been BS by ignorant people. Apple always gave the best SoC possible, for example. The A7 is unmatched on a number of areas, despite 1 year old. Only people that associate number of cores and GHz, and screen size as innovation would say such thing.

But if we were talking about 512 MB of ram vs 1 GB, 1 GB vs 2, 2 VS 3, I would understand. But soon it is going to be 1 GB of RAM vs 4, and the advantages of having 2 GB of RAM are huge and users would feel the effect on day one of using the device, by loading more apps, and multitask better. Not to mention longer support and better apps in the future.

I think that is why Apple is able to claim 2X speed and same battery life at the same time. If ram is doubled, the battery drain will be horrible.

 

[Stanick]

macrumors members make up <1% of apple's customer base. Most of Apple's customers dont even know what RAM is.

So how this justifies Apple's decision to make yet another crippled product?

 

[randian]

So how this justifies Apple's decision to make yet another crippled product?

We don't actually know for certain what the memory spec will be.

 

[Fabricman112]

I think that is why Apple is able to claim 2X speed and same battery life at the same time. If ram is doubled, the battery drain will be horrible.

the more you can store in RAM the less you have to download/reload from nand/rerender.. etc

more RAM (obviously not ridiculous amounts) in a mobile device (somewhat optimized) should in almost every case lead to LESS battery drain...

of course multitasking and background downloading/cpu usage can lead to heavier drain, but that is a matter of usage, not the RAM´s fault...

the "multitasking" on my iPad Air is almost everytime a frozen state of the background app.. if its a 3d-game the game has to restart/render environment and that uses far more power than reading from memory

same when browsing, what uses more power: redownloading the entire tabbed webpage AND storing in memory or simply reading from RAM ??

a quick google:
http://lifehacker.com/quitting-apps-in-ios-actually-worsens-battery-life-1560086834
I´m sure there are more pages like that..

in any case RAM uses very little power compared to display, modem, speakers, cpu.. well everything else really

 

[Count Blah]

I'm watching this thread with only 256 Mb on iPod touch and didn't crash tapatalk

A good programmer try to code efficiently and make own apps consuming less resources possible.

If efficiency is the way to go, why put more RAM and wasting more energy?

Yea poorer user experience!!!!

In the tech world, Only apple fanboys willing accept less, and brag about it.

 

[tr3]

having read most of the comments, it is absolutely clear to me that nobody here is going to buy this ****** iphone 6...

samsung will win a lot of new customers by selling their giganto-phones with triple-octamegasuperspeedcore CPUs and way more RAM then a regular PC needs.

oh, and apple is doomed!

 

[Tycho24]

The 1st 1gb iOs device came out September of 2012,...
If they keep the 6 at 1gb, the soonest an iPhone could get a memory boost would be September of 2015... a full THREE years later!

There is ZERO precedent for this. In the seven generations that have preceded this, the same amount of memory have never been used more than two generation... & in some instances one. The original iPhone & the 3G shared the same amount of memory, the 4 & the 4S shared the same amount of memory... & the 5 and the 5S shared the same amount of memory.
I would say, that leads one to believe that the 6 & the 6S are likely to share the same amount of memory- likely different & higher than the 5 & 5S did.... If we are taking into account the past seven years of historical data.
I would be unbelievably annoyed, amazed, & shocked if Apple veered from their progression and suddenly took a different tact on their internals upgrade direction after so many years of success with this pattern.

TLDR: 2gb in 6 & 6S, heard it here 1st!

 

[Dranix]

The amount of drama here because of some tea leaf reading is unbelievable

 

[cfedu]

having read most of the comments, it is absolutely clear to me that nobody here is going to buy this ****** iphone 6...

samsung will win a lot of new customers by selling their giganto-phones with triple-octamegasuperspeedcore CPUs and way more RAM then a regular PC needs.

oh, and apple is doomed!

I'm sure apple will make lots of money, who knows what the magic formula is.

I went from a 4s to a Nexus 5 for a few reasons, one of them being the iPhones 5/5s having a display with same horizontal res and size as the 4s. Since I read a lot and use my phone in portrait this was a must have. Android has its faults but it has really grown on me, I can have 20 webpages open alone with apps and they hardly ever reload or refresh. The nexus 5 has offered a greater experience then my 4s.

The thing is, I have a Mac mini, Macbook air, iPad and apple tv. I want to buy a 5.5" iPhone 6 as it will work better in my ecosystem. My 3 requirements for me to buy a new iPhone are:

Big display, iPhone 6 check
Multitasking and ability to not have to refresh apps and sites. iPhone 6. to be decided
Integration into my ecosystem. IPhone 6. Check


If the iPhone 6 cant keep up with my 350$ generation old Nexus 5, I will not be going back to apple.

For the vast majority of people who buy iPhones this will not be a problem, My sister yesterday asked me how to install the facebook messenger app. For her and the vast Majority of iPhone users you could probably reduce the ram in half or sell them an iPhone clone and they would not notice.

 

[murgo]

The 1st 1gb iOs device came out September of 2012,...
If they keep the 6 at 1gb, the soonest an iPhone could get a memory boost would be September of 2015... a full THREE years later!

There is ZERO precedent for this. In the seven generations that have preceded this, the same amount of memory have never been used more than two generation... & in some instances one. The original iPhone & the 3G shared the same amount of memory, the 4 & the 4S shared the same amount of memory... & the 5 and the 5S shared the same amount of memory.
I would say, that leads one to believe that the 6 & the 6S are likely to share the same amount of memory- likely different & higher than the 5 & 5S did.... If we are taking into account the past seven years of historical data.
I would be unbelievably annoyed, amazed, & shocked if Apple veered from their progression and suddenly took a different tact on their internals upgrade direction after so many years of success with this pattern.

TLDR: 2gb in 6 & 6S, heard it here 1st!

I sure as **** hope you're right.

 

[cfedu]

The 1st 1gb iOs device came out September of 2012,...

Try March 2012

 

[Anti-Lucifer]

This makes no sense if you think about it. Wouldn't Apple be better off getting the sale right now than getting it a year from now?

It makes PEFECT sense to release 2GB in iPhone 6S! Only apple loyalists will keep buying these iPhones with crippled hardware. Apple simply makes the iPhone 6 available now with 1GB ram, then iPhone 6S with 2GB, you apple apologists will keep lining up like sheep being herded.

The truth hurts! There's one thing apple is absolutely great at and no other competitor is even remotely close to their skill - it's not the iPhone that's for sure but it's their marketing and their business model. They really know how to make profits because they are mind f'ng you people with trickle features and small incremental updates so you keep coming back for more. This is pure business genius

 

[nviz22]

I'm sure apple will make lots of money, who knows what the magic formula is.

I went from a 4s to a Nexus 5 for a few reasons, one of them being the iPhones 5/5s having a display with same horizontal res and size as the 4s. Since I read a lot and use my phone in portrait this was a must have. Android has its faults but it has really grown on me, I can have 20 webpages open alone with apps and they hardly ever reload or refresh. The nexus 5 has offered a greater experience then my 4s.

The thing is, I have a Mac mini, Macbook air, iPad and apple tv. I want to buy a 5.5" iPhone 6 as it will work better in my ecosystem. My 3 requirements for me to buy a new iPhone are:

Big display, iPhone 6 check
Multitasking and ability to not have to refresh apps and sites. iPhone 6. to be decided
Integration into my ecosystem. IPhone 6. Check


If the iPhone 6 cant keep up with my 350$ generation old Nexus 5, I will not be going back to apple.

For the vast majority of people who buy iPhones this will not be a problem, My sister yesterday asked me how to install the facebook messenger app. For her and the vast Majority of iPhone users you could probably reduce the ram in half or sell them an iPhone clone and they would not notice.

Be prepared to skip out on the iPhone 6. The Nexus 5 > iPhone 5S and 6. 1080p vs some gimmicky 720p display, 2 GB of RAM vs 1 GB of RAM, battery life is better on the Nexus 5, fastest software updates, nicer looking phone, etc. The only advantages the iPhone will have are the finger print scanner and camera. The Nexus 6 should be fun to use and see as well.

 

[rjtyork]

i'm shocked...1gb...seriously?
The iphone 5 introduced 1gb. It was time for an upgrade to 2gb. What was the point of introducing a 64 bit processor if you're bottlenecking the device to 1gb?

By the way, 1gb is simply not enough. I get a lot of low memory warnings when i have 5-6 apps open on my 5s (jailbroken phone so i can have cool stuff like that). Plus safari is a pain due to the fact that tabs will refresh due to not enough memory.

Android is on the rise and apple needs to fight back, not release some half assed product. Introducing a 64 bit cpu and only using 1gb of ram on the next model is just wow. They want developers to unleash the power of the iphone yet limit their app's memory consumption to around 300-500mb (obviously most apps will just use 20-30 mb of ram)

^^ this.

 

[bluewomble88]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1769894/

 

[Roadstar]

Be prepared to skip out on the iPhone 6. The Nexus 5 > iPhone 5S and 6. 1080p vs some gimmicky 720p display, 2 GB of RAM vs 1 GB of RAM, battery life is better on the Nexus 5, fastest software updates, nicer looking phone, etc. The only advantages the iPhone will have are the finger print scanner and camera. The Nexus 6 should be fun to use and see as well.

I'd add also wireless charging to the benefits of the Nexus 5. I know that lots of people here write it off as a gimmick, but it's one of those features that you don't want to give up after using it for some time. I bought my Nexus 5 as an interim phone after giving my iPhone 5 to my wife to replace her old iPhone 4. Now I'm actually liking the Nexus 5 so much that the iPhone 6 is not an automatic buy anymore. It needs to be an impressive device to justify its price, but the rumors so far are giving me the opposite impression.

 

[bboult]

If it is only 1gb, I for one won't be buying - not that Apple is likely to care!

 

[Anitramane]

I think apple should fix iOS instead. Why does iOS need so much ram to not have safari pages refresh for example? Software is at fault here. 1 gigabyte can be enough for everyones Iphone 6 if they stop having **** software.

 

[saberahul]

Till the time the phone works without issue, who cares? I'll happily take 16KB of RAM if the device performed like it should without issues.

 

[Roadstar]

Till the time the phone works without issue, who cares? I'll happily take 16KB of RAM if the device performed like it should without issues.

One of the things I've liked about the iPhone is the long support it gets. However, if they're really going to release the iPhone 6 with only 1 GB of RAM, I'm afraid it hits the spot where a new iOS version runs too sluggishly or not at all much sooner than the older models. The iPhone 4 got over 3 years before iOS 7 made it run sluggishly and iOS 8 will be the first OS that's not available for it at all. That makes it over 4 years of lifespan for that device. If a late 2014 iPhone gets only 1 GB of RAM, I'm afraid the usable lifespan won't be exceeding 2 years.