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Proof "So Far" That 6 Plus Has 2GB of RAM
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I hope the 6+ has 2GB of ram, but I wouldn't bet on it. Does it make sense? Yes, it does.
But what I will bet on is that the A8 is clocked up a bit higher in the + model than the regular model. The extra power is needed to run all of the extra pixels. Do I have any proof of this? Of course not. We will all just have to wait and see.
But what I will bet on is that the A8 is clocked up a bit higher in the + model than the regular model. The extra power is needed to run all of the extra pixels. Do I have any proof of this? Of course not. We will all just have to wait and see.
Come back when your iPad is spelled iPhone 6. Your posts are completely pointless, not to mention worthless. Your justification of why the 6 doesn't have the features of the 6+ is just your justification. The FACT is that it's missing features. Try as you might to convince yourself those features you don't want nor need, but it won't change facts. You ARE missing features with the 6. It may or may not include RAM. Deal with it.
I am neither over or under it. I don't expect it to have 2GB but it would certainly be nice. You on the other hand are deathly afraid of it having 2GB. Insecure much? Don't want to add yet another feature you don't have? Sounds like you have something to get over to me. Good luck.
Exactly! "Proof" is not something you associate with leaks. The only proof will be specs from Apple or somebody with an actual iPhone 6+ posting a screenshot.
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Personally, I don't give a hoot how much RAM it has so long as it continues to run smoothly and stably. Specs != Real World Performance.
Proof So far That 6 Plus Has 2GB of RAM
I don't understand all the Spec whores around here. Who cares how much memory it has? Who cares what the CPU speed is? As long as it works fast is all that matters. If the iPhone had 1 kilobyte of RAM and a .00001 MHz processor and worked fine why would you care? When a manufacture makes hardware and software everything usually works a lot better and more efficiently.
I don't understand all the Spec whores around here. Who cares how much memory it has? Who cares what the CPU speed is? As long as it works fast is all that matters. If the iPhone had 1 kilobyte of RAM and a .00001 MHz processor and worked fine why would you care? When a manufacture makes hardware and software everything usually works a lot better and more efficiently.
Who give a feck about downscaling on the 6 Plus.
The Air pushes around over a million more pixels than the 6 Plus quite happily on a generation older CPU/GPU
The Air pushes around over a million more pixels than the 6 Plus quite happily on a generation older CPU/GPU
This.
This is exactly why I'm sad that Apple ever decided to publish specs after the Samsung/Nvidia lovers started the whole spec war.
If it works, it works. Specs aren't everything.
Finally someone else who knows what they are talking about!
Just like the Benchmark tests. A lot of them a false. It's a fact that some smartphones will automatically over clock when a benchmark test is being run. Resulting in higher scores.
Because we've had 1GB devices from Apple for a few years now and already know it's hardly adequate. I don't get posts like this, you guys act like we don't know the constraints of 1GB on a modern device with modern apps. We do, and have for at least 2 years now.
That's the thing though. It doesn't work well for lots of people, because Safari reloads tabs with only a couple open....
Why can't some people understand one thing.
CPU and GPU performance is not the same thing as RAM. New iPhones and iPads are on the top as far as speed (cpu and gpu) is concerned. The same cannot be said for RAM.
iPhones can perform fast and smooth with only 1 gb of RAM, but they won't be able to hold much in memory (tabs,apps...) and will have to reload them, which is annoying to a lot of people, because it can easily be solved by simply putting 2 gb of RAM in there.
It would be foolish to assume that the 6 Plus doesn't have an extra 100mhz or more on clock speed over the 6. While they use the same CPU, nobody ever said the 6 Plus wasn't clocked slightly higher... Not saying I know this for sure. A review by a place like Anandtech will confirm or deny it, but there's no way to know at this point!
Lack of RAM on iOS devices doesn't cause slowness, lag or jerky animations or whatever, which what you're referring to. iPhones have state of the art CPUs and GPUs, which is why the smoothness and performance is there (combined with iOS optimization).
They don't have state of the art amount of RAM though, which causes tabs, apps etc. to reload much more often than they would, if iPhones had 2 gb of RAM.
The leaked benchmarks (and they do look legitimate) suggest that the 6 has 1GB of RAM. I doubt Apple would make 2 different chips for the 6 and 6+. The 6+ might be clocked a little higher, but it'll probably have the same A8. Apple has never been one to give their iPhones extra RAM. Yes the 6+ has a higher resolution but even the iPad with 50% more pixels and same 64bit OS stayed at 1GB.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1775525/
Make sure to read the whole thing, it has some links in there going step by step showing you how the 6 Plus draws the image versus the iPads and iPhones.
The iPad Air might be pushing more pixels, but thats not the issue. To be able to put more info on the display, Apple increased the point count for the display and the iPhone 6 Plus requests 3x Retina imagine versus 2x for other Retina displays. This is still not where the issue is yet.
Apple gave the iPhone 6 Plus an official point count of 414x736. Now with the other Retina displays, this would be half the resolution. For instance, the point count on the 3.5" Retina iPhones is 320x480, which is the same resolution they used for the non-Retina iPhones (original, 3G, 3GS). They did this to make it easier to just scale the apps up. The resolution of the iPhone 4 & 4s is 640x960 (2x of 320x480).
Now see with iPhone 6 4.7", the point count is 375x667 which when rendered to Retina x2 is 750x1334, or the same resolution of the phone. With the Plus however, the point count is 414x736. Retina 2x would render at 828x1472, not doable. So lets up it to 3x. 1242x2208. So this takes care of the size of framework needed, but now this brings a new issue to the plate. An image of the OS rendered at a size that is too big for the display. Whats it going to do? Resize the image down to 1080x1920. That means to display the image on the display, iOS now has to go back to the GPU a second time in the same amount of time. Because it does have to go back twice, the GPU in the phone would have to be a heck of a lot better then the one found in the iPad Air. The iPad Air may have 500,000 more pixels then the iPhone 6 Plus, however the plus has to reach back into the GPU a second time to resize the image to fit the display.
Now, you may be wondering why Apple did this. A lot of people (myself included) believe Apple may have made another last minute change to the display before shipping. The original display, which was more then likely 1242x2208, may have cost too much to make or they were having problems manufacturing them. So they decided to replace them with something more readily available, 1080p displays.
If this is the case, then doubling the RAM in the Plus to 2GB would increase performance since it would give the GPU more room to write to VRAM (VRAM is taken from the main RAM since its all in the SoC). Some have also said that there will be two revisions of the A8, one found in the iPhone 6 and soon to be iPad mini 3rd Gen and one found in the iPhone 6 Plus and 2nd Gen iPad Air. Why? Well the iPad Air A7 is actually different then the reset of the A7s. While it may only be 100MHz faster, the way things are arranged inside the SoC is more like the A5X and A6X, however it only has dual core graphics instead of quad core found in the A5X and A6X. This makes the same GPU more efficient and the processor 100Hz faster. In fact if you look, the A7 in the iPad Air even has a heat spreader like the A5/A6X. The A8 would probably be the same way.
Now, I'm not saying the iPhone 6 Plus will be a slow clunky phone. (Heck, I ordered one for my self since I have been wanting a bigger iPhone for better video viewing). I'm saying that more then likely it will have a slightly revised and more GPU-centric SoC then the A8 in the iPhone 6.
PS: For those who might ask why Apple couldn't have just changed the point count for 1080p at Retina 3x scaling, its because the point count would then be 360x640, meaning the phone would have a smaller point count then the iPhone 6 (which is 375x667). Using Retina 2x imaging wouldn't have come out as clear.
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The display is still 1242x2208, it just down-samples to 1080p. Think of it like the Retina MacBook Pro and its screen options.
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Lol big honker? Okayyyy. And some people could call the 4.7 iPhone 6 a puny nothing that takes unstable motion videos at only 720p and offers the same old landscape mode as iPhone 5. Do we really need to start insulting everybody's choices?