Apple reveals how much RAM the iPhone 16 has: this is how much RAM has increased since the first iPhone

Apple announced a week ago the new line of mobile phones iPhone 16 which goes on sale this Friday. As usual for the company, it highlighted all the benefits of the product without going too much into the technical specifications of the device. And among them, one very important one was missing when it came to assessing the performance of a device: the amount of RAM memory. Apple never provides this information about its phones, as it does with battery capacity, and when it is known it is usually through other sources, but This year the company has been more open in this regard..

It’s not that they’ve changed their policy on this, if you go to the page for each of the iPhone 16s in the Apple store, you’ll see that This information does not appear anywhere. It has been Johny Sroujisenior vice president of Hardware Technologies at Apple, who revealed this in an interview on the YouTube channel Geekerwan.

The novelty compared to the previous generation, iPhone 15, is that The entire range has the same amount of RAM. And it is the only one, since There is no increase compared to last year’s iPhone 15 Pro which have already been discontinued by Apple. Thus, both the iPhone 16 and the 16 Plus, 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max have 8 GB RAM.

Srouji explained in the interview that “RAM is one aspect” when it comes to deciding the hardware features needed for Apple Intelligenceand said that this “led us to believe that we need to get to 8GB“He added that the additional RAM would also ‘help tremendously’ for tasks like demanding video games on iPhone 16.

The importance of RAM to run AI language models locally is something that has already been discussed Google when he launched the Pixel 8 a year ago. The top model, Pixel 8 Prohas 12 GB while the 8 and the 8a must settle for 8 GB. Initially, the AI ​​features running on the device were to be released only for the top model, due to the lower RAM of the rest of the rangeBut user protests convinced Google to enable them on the 8 and 8a through developer options.

Beyond the topic of AI, Apple has always been obscurantist on this issue because it did not benefit it.. It is a comparison in which it always comes out on the losing side because high-end Android phones are ahead. For example, the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra and S24+ have 12 GB and the Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL have 16 GB. Another thing is the performance and that the software is able to use that amount in a way more efficient of what a mobile does Androidsomething that iOS has always excelled at.

This is how the amount of RAM in iPhones has evolved since the first

The evolution of the amount of RAM in iPhones has been slow. Below, you can see how it has been and how much RAM each iPhone has had since the launch of the first one in 2007.