Although Apple events are usually extensive, especially those that include new phones in them, the truth is that the company usually omits certain data that end up emerging later through different software. One of these data that they omit is that of the RAM memories of their devices and the last one that we have known is the one carried by the iPhone 13.
As we say, these data end up emerging in one way or another since the software that checks the performance of the phones shows them, or they appear through Xcode, a common source in the Apple world in this sense. Now we know what RAM memories the new iPhone 13 have and it is already possible to say that nothing has changed in the last year: the figures for the iPhone 12 are maintained. Model by model.
4GB of RAM for the iPhone 13, 6GB for the iPhone 13 Pro
Apple has made its phones advance in different areas such as in the power section, with a new Apple A15 Bionic that promises more than enough performance and that also comes in two flavors, one with a 4-core GPU for the normal models and the other with a 5-core GPU for the Pro models. A differentiating leap between the two categories of phones and that allows the Pro models to perform more aggressive tasks.
Phones have also made headway in terms of storage, with 128GB as a basic option and with a new version of 1TB of space in the Pro models, but where there have been no changes is in the RAM. As revealed by Xcode 13 Beta, the iPhone 13 have 4GB of RAM (both the normal model and the iPhone 13 Mini) and the iPhone 13 Pro also have 6GB of RAM, also for both models.
The iPhone 13 thus maintains the figure of last season, tying the iPhone 13 with the iPhone 12 and the Pro models with each other. So, we still have to wait another year at least for Apple to base its iPhone at 6GB and take the Pro models one step further. We will see what happens with the performance of some apps and, above all, with the multitasking of the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Mini, well 4GB seems too tight in 2021, for very good memory management that iOS carries out. And it is that sometimes it is necessary to give him a hand.
Let’s take a look at the evolution of RAM in iPhones in recent generations. For example, starting with the iPhone X:
Year / generation | Model | RAM |
---|---|---|
2017. | iPhone 8 | 2GB |
2018 | iPhone XR | 3GB |
2019 | iPhone 11 | 4GB |
2020 | iPhone 12 Mini | 4GB |
2021 | iPhone 13 Mini | 4GB |
Via | MacRumors