Tested: Google's Pixel 9 Pro models only have 13GB RAM for apps
Google's new Pixel 9 Pro models reserve part of their 16GB RAM exclusively for AI features. I figured out how much.
How did google manage to make a version of linux more bloated than windows? It's almost impressive.
AI bullshit.
And telemetry
Tbf the high ram usage wouldnt be a problem if it cached processes in it and used it to save battery but its just pure bloat. I think phones should have a coprocessor that handles notifications like what smartwatches do and that basically free battery. But android is also bloated because apps take a very long time to launch because of the jvm and java (thats what i heard at least, idk if this is actually why its slow) so everything is just left active. Also i think android strayed too far from linux, its basically just a worse version with a mobile ui and the support of a country sized company.
Only?
Barely enough for the OS and one app
Only? I have just 8 GB RAM on My PC.
And Android device which I am using to comment this have just 2GB RAM.
Chrome casually using 8gbs with a few tabs open. Also windows 11. I got a school laptop and windows uses 5gb out of the box💀. Linux supremacy.
Firefox using way less than that for like 20 tabs…
Not a big deal.
Wait until you find out how much ram gets wasted in caching and algorithms designed to run faster on computers or improve productivity. Even things like indexing to speed up search or icon caching
It's a mobile phone. 13gb is lots, and I'd be curious to see the extent that ai improves productivity.
The headline is designed explicitly to bait arguments
The problem is Android is fuckterrible at using RAM properly.
That's insane for so many reasons.
Reasons such as?
Phones don't need 16 GB of RAM.
That's why it is insane. It is a crazy huge amount of ram that is eaten up like crazy.
16GB of RAM sounded too good to be true. Granted 13GB is nothing for sneeze at still. Hopefully, they can provide an option to toggle it off. Sounds wasteful for people who would use it once a while.
I bought it cause I wanted pink and I like larger phones smaller phones feel uncomfortable to hold I wish the AI stuff would get lost it's all nonsense that does nothing to improve anything and only slows you down and is an excuse for more spyware
Just getting the 3GB of RAM used is not the issue. There are apps which can use even more. The issue is its reserved meaning its not available to your other apps.
An option to remove the lock while still being able to utilize the RAM (should the need arise) and AI features should be provided for flexibility should one desire.
At least the OS seems to know that the additional memory is there. This means root apps or custom ROMs should be able to use all 16GB.
What about the regular 9?
On the Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel 9, we note just 0.26GB (275,336KiB) of locked RAM [...], a very small amount most likely used for some background tasks in the OS. However, on the Pixel 9 Pro XL, this leaps to 2.91GB (3,051,936KiB) of Unevictable and Mlocked RAM. Subtract out the Unevictable RAM from the Pixel 9, and there’s an extra 2.64GB (2,776,603KiB) reserved on the Pro models.
My gaming PC has 9
