24 GB of RAM on the next flagships? Anything !
According to several sources, the next Premium devices from Oppo, OnePlus and RedMagic will integrate the whopping 24 GB of RAM. Yes, you read correctly ! At a time when standard PC configurations offer 8 or 16 GB of RAM, this staggering figure is surprising…
During a brilliant article from March 2021, we wondered how much RAM a user needs on his smartphone. If at the time 2 GB of RAM seemed very fair and 4 GB barely enough, 8 GB seemed to us to be a good base for a successful Android experience. We nevertheless point out that 12 GB and above seemed to us to be superfluous. And it is clear that the manufacturers – with rare exceptions – did not scramble to offer devices with 16 or 18 GB of RAM. Remember that at Apple, the iPhone 14 Pro offers “only” 6 GB of RAM…
Already 3 devices announced
It is therefore with astonishment that we learned that Oppo and OnePlus planned to integrate the whopping 24 GB of RAM on their next flagships. The RedMagic brand – a subsidiary of Nubia and specialized in devices for gamers – even communicated on its RedMagic 8S Pro which will indeed embed this maddening amount of RAM.
8 GB, it’s not slow…
So of course, we can say that this evolution is beneficial, but in the end the applications have not evolved that much. Even for very demanding 3D games, why would we need more RAM than on a PC? Download App and Device Info and see how much RAM you’re using at the end of the day, without clearing background apps. You will be surprised to see that you will rarely wait for 5 GB…
The Pixel 6a only has 6 GB of RAM and yet it is very powerful!
One more commercial argument
For 98% of users, between 8 and 12 GB is more than enough and many would not see any difference with a device with more RAM. It is above all a commercial argument as the refresh of the screen at 144 Hz while in any case applications and games rarely take this specification into account to stagnate at 120 Hz.
Remember that Apollo 11 landed on the Moon with a computer that had 4 KB of RAM: 2 million times less than the current standard for smartphones. It is enough to optimize in fact…
