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iPhone 6 Plus - 2GB of RAM?

One thing to remember is theses specs could be real because we know tech sites get their hands on the devices ahead of time so that the reviews can be released a few days before launch.
 
The point being primarily that apple most definitely do release different versions, even so far as having different RAM configurations.
 
Yes, absolutely. But not in any iPhone. I'll apologize to all of you, but I feel it won't be necessary.

Just to be clear again. They could both have 2GB RAM, I'm just saying they use the identical chip. Additionally, the 6plus needs more memory bandwidth on the bus to drive the display, which has 2,47 times more pixels.

It's not the speed, it's memory bandwidth. The 'megabytes per second".
This is why it might lag during lots of animations.

But I will shut up now. You can all buy me a beer on Friday.
 
robinp said:
You're reading the wrong bit. See here:

"Apple uses the APL5698 variant of the A7 chip in the iPad Air. Its die is identical in size and layout to that of the first A7 and is manufactured by Samsung.[25] However, unlike the first version of the A7, the A7 used in the iPad Air is not a package-on-package (PoP), having no stacked RAM. Instead it uses a chip-on-board mounting, immediately adjacent DRAM, and is covered by a metallic heat spreader, similar to the Apple A5X and A6X.[25][26]"
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I think pmau is a little confused because the A7 (and A8) still appears to be a single chip, because both the chip and memory are covered by a heat spreader.

TSMC fabricates the A8 chip for Apple, which Apple (or its manufacturing partners) mount on another board (module) with memory chips purchased from a DRAM manufacturer (Hynix). Apple could easily swap the size of the memory chips on this board provided they can fit into the same space as the 1GB chips.

Again, both the A8 chip fabricated for Apple by TSMC and the memory chips supplied by Hynix are placed beneath a single heat spreader, so it appears there is only a single chip, but there are multiple chips beneath the heat spreader. Apple could easily produce two variants with different memory configurations.
 
pmau said:
Nope. Apple has never built two versions of the same SoC.

The iPad version has a higher clock rate because it can handle the battery demands and the increased heat. More RAM requires a different SoC.

PS: Meaning that both iPhones could have 2GB RAM, but they will have the same amount regardless.
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Wasn't the A5/A5X and A6/A6X two versions of the same SoC?
 
pmau said:
Nope. Apple has never built two versions of the same SoC.
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Actually, this is false. For example, Apple has had an A4 chip with 256 MB RAM and an A4 chip with 512 MB RAM.

One could argue that, because of the pixel increase, Apple can have two versions of the A8 chip: one with 1 GB RAM and one with 2 GB RAM.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they were both 1 GB RAM. I wouldn't be surprised either if they both had 2 GB of RAM.
 
Also. The iphone 6 plus name may not just be for the screen size. They never said it was named just for that. It could have been because of better camera and internals. But who knows.
 
It's one of Apples little secrets.

Most buyers of iPhones don't have any idea what it means anyway.

As long as the box says Apple and it's shiny they'll sell... :)
 
I think the plus is going to have a higher clock speed and 2gb of ram. I have nothing to back this up but if the extra features are any indication all signs are pointing to this. it has more pixels to push and already has a name indicating it will be better than the regular iphone 6. So why not? C'mon apple justify that $100 premium.
 
Cryates said:
I love how people just assume though that they're guessing when it's very possible that they have a review device in advance.
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Based on Macworld's iPhone reviews history, I saw no evidence that suggests they have access to advanced review devices. I just see a bunch of vanilla comparison reviews.
 
icowboys said:
Based on Macworld's iPhone reviews history, I saw no evidence that suggests they have access to advanced review devices. I just see a bunch of vanilla comparison reviews.
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that comparison was a bunch of flip flop guessing with no real substance....the only thing that stuck out was they mentioned geekbench by name like they ran it?
 
Cryates said:
I love how people just assume though that they're guessing when it's very possible that they have a review device in advance.
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Show me where they do a take down and prove its 2GB RAM. Do that and then I'll listen. Until then, its speculation.

And until we know for sure, you're the one assuming they have an early access review unit.
 
appledes7 said:
Show me where they do a take down and prove its 2GB RAM. Do that and then I'll listen. Until then, its speculation.

And until we know for sure, you're the one assuming they have an early access review unit.
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Obviously I have no proof of that and if you read my post above you'll see even I am holding off until legit reviews on Wednesday. I'm just saying it's easy to assume it's a guess when no one knows what they have access to if what the phone actually has.

Also, sorry for a being a jerk with my original response to you. Looks like the mods deleted it.
 
pmau said:
Yes, absolutely. But not in any iPhone. I'll apologize to all of you, but I feel it won't be necessary.

Just to be clear again. They could both have 2GB RAM, I'm just saying they use the identical chip. Additionally, the 6plus needs more memory bandwidth on the bus to drive the display, which has 2,47 times more pixels.

It's not the speed, it's memory bandwidth. The 'megabytes per second".
This is why it might lag during lots of animations.

But I will shut up now. You can all buy me a beer on Friday.
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I see you're still trying excessively hard to convince yourself your 6 is going to be superior to the 6+
 
What Apple seems to have done this year, according to their own statements during the introduction, is to have used the smaller process technology for efficiency gains more so than for compute gains. But they also doubled the number of transistors to two billion, so something else is obviously going on here.
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So the went to a 20nm process for efficiency gains, but a 50% compute gain. If the ram is kept at 1gb, what are they doing with all those additional transistors?
 
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