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iPhone 14 Pro Features 6GB of Faster LPDDR5 Memory

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The iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max feature 6GB of faster RAM, which helps make overall device performance faster and more efficient compared to last year's iPhone 13 Pro.

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Earlier today, a teardown of the iPhone 14 Pro revealed it features Qualcomm's X65 5G modem, offering faster 5G speeds and lower energy consumption.

That same teardown also confirmed that the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max feature the newer and faster type of LPDDR5 RAM compared to the LPDDR4X memory in the previous iPhone 13 Pro. Like the iPhone 13 Pro last year, the iPhone 14 Pro still features the same 6GB capacity of RAM but benefits from the newer LPDDR5 memory type.

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The standard iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus, as rumored, are expected to still be featuring LPDDR4X memory alongside the A15 Bionic chip from last year's high-end iPhones. According to Apple, the A16 Bionic in the iPhone 14 Pro features 50% more memory bandwidth, which is in line with the expected increase from moving to LPDDR5 memory. The iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max feature the new A16 Bionic chip that Apple says is the "fastest chip ever in a smartphone."

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jav6454 said:
What is incredible is that an iPhone is just 2GB shy of the 8GB offered in entry level MBAs and MBPs. Goes to show how important memory is for the Mac-line and how under powered they are to boost bottom line.

Unpopular opinion? Perhaps.
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I'm sure there are those with use cases that can support 8gb. People who buy computers, hopefully understand their use cases and then buy the appropriate hardware to support their use cases.
 
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jav6454 said:
What is incredible is that an iPhone is just 2GB shy of the 8GB offered in entry level MBAs and MBPs. Goes to show how important memory is for the Mac-line and how under powered they are to boost bottom line.

Unpopular opinion? Perhaps.
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Maybe it's an unpopular opinion because a $999 Mac still has more RAM than a $999 iPhone, so you can't really define the iPhone "bottom line"
 
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I distinctly remember my professor at university telling me that incremental improvements were rarely lauded by the public and that they were more wowed by updates in multiples of integers above one. Those days of rapid advancement year-on-year are pretty much over and people are moving from a two to a three or even four year product cycle these days.

It only matters if the final result is significantly faster performance at lower power levels.

If it instead, as I suspect, only amounts to a sub 10% performance increase that offsets a 10% power saving to provide similar battery life then people will likely be disappointed despite tangible gains.
 
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I7guy said:
I'm sure there are those with use cases that can support 8gb. People who buy computers, hopefully understand their use cases and then buy the appropriate hardware to support their use cases.
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In my experience the people buying these computers do not understand their use cases and have no idea what hardware is appropriate.

Most of the time that use case is opening Chrome and leaving it open with ten thousand tabs and so no, 8 GB isn't enough.

But Apple will start with 16GB of RAM around the time the base iPhone has 256 of storage. In other words, a long long time from now. That upgrade plum is just too sweet.
 
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EvilEvil said:
Very nice! All we need is 10 more GB of ram for Apple to catch up to Android.
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The reason why Android needs so much memory is that it lacks Apple's level of hardware and software integration and, like generic windows and other software that is required to run on a plethora of ambiguous hardware, is highly inefficient and needs twice as much to do pretty much the same as Apple does on its highly regulated hardware.

If iPhone ever moves over to M series with its unified memory architecture, this gap in performance and power usage will be literally LOLworthy.
 
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I7guy said:
Would have like 8gb. Oh well.
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EvilEvil said:
Very nice! All we need is 10 more GB of ram for Apple to catch up to Android.
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I am legitimately curious, in what situation does the iPhone ever show that it doesn't have enough RAM? I have been using them since the first and I cannot ever remember wishing for more memory. I still find the experience smoother than any other phone I have ever used.

Not being a dick, just trying to figure out why people keep wanting more and more RAM when it seems like Apple has the iPhone pretty optimized using less than competitors.
 
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ant the ninja said:
I am legitimately curious, in what situation does the iPhone ever show that it doesn't have enough RAM? I have been using them since the first and I cannot ever remember wishing for more memory.
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it used to be very obvious in Safari and the frequency it would need to reload tabs you had opened in the background. The iPhone 6 to the 6s where they doubled from 1GB to 2GB was particularly big in terms of Safari tab history from my recollection at the time and the improvement that the 6s had in that respect.

But yeah, iOS never has really just fallen over a lot because of lack of memory. It’d just show itself as an issue subtly in Safari reloading and other similar sorts of things.
 
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ufomism said:
Currently in DFW, checked inventory and every config/color of the 14 pro is available for pickup today or tomorrow. Seems demand is not as high as expected.
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Place order right now I can still have any config I want in the next two hours.
 
ant the ninja said:
I am legitimately curious, in what situation does the iPhone ever show that it doesn't have enough RAM? I have been using them since the first and I cannot ever remember wishing for more memory. I still find the experience smoother than any other phone I have ever used.

Not being a dick, just trying to figure out why people keep wanting more and more RAM when it seems like Apple has the iPhone pretty optimized using less than competitors.
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Occasionally sleeping apps will reload, like safari. More memory will stop the reloading.
 
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ufomism said:
Currently in DFW, checked inventory and every config/color of the 14 pro is available for pickup today or tomorrow. Seems demand is not as high as expected.
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Yep. But it's weird that the Pro Max is out of stock in lots of configs. Is that because it's more popular (sells more quickly)? Or is there lower stock so it only seems to be more popular?
 
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