iPad Pro Practical Uses of 16 GB of RAM?

[mi7chy]

Interesting. So my gut instinct that even 8GB won't be fully utilized until OS/apps are retuned sounds to be true. Another developer had mentioned that Jetsam limits per app to 1GB RAM so I assume the 5GB being quoted is total for all apps?

 

[nicetriangles]

My bad. if you want please run this and report your numbers. I stand corrected regarding my previous post - memory budget on iPadOS 14.5.x seems to be restricted to a higher amount as previous versions of iPadOS (on the same hardware). I did the factor wrong for the 2020 iPPs.

I'm assuming I'd need Xcode and a developer account to run this and I have neither

Edit: this developer seems to have done something similar themselves already

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1395755668200640518

 

[rui no onna]

Only the A9X and A12X have 2 RAM variants, in addition to M1 iPads... And what happens is just what I explained above...(both variants are treated like the lower one).

Maybe for OS features but for app max memory budget, this suggests otherwise.

• iPad Pro 9.7": 1395MB/1971MB/71% (iOS 10.0.2 (14A456))
• iPad Pro 10.5”: 3057/4000/76% (iOS 11 beta4)
• iPad Pro 12.9” (2015): 3058/3999/76% (iOS 11.2.1)
• iPad Pro 12.9” (2017): 3057/3974/77% (iOS 11 beta4)
• iPad Pro 11.0” (2018): 2858/3769/76% (iOS 12.1)
• iPad Pro 12.9” (2018, 1TB): 4598/5650/81% (iOS 12.1)