About the amount of RAM in the iPhone 5

On the announcement of last week iPhone 5Approving the rumor mass plying previously and speculation about the device. But among significant innovations were not only an enlarged display, the LTE support, the new 9-pin connector and an improved camera with a set of useful features. It turns out, used in the new iPhone system-on-chip Apple A6 has more memory than the previous two generations of SoC, namely, 1 GB.

IN iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S Apple used 512 MB of RAM, which should be enough for efficient operation of the smartphone (and, judging by the experience of using the device, it is quite enough). However, there was nowhere to roam developers (especially when it came to multitasking). Well, luck came with the iPhone 5, which not only has increased the RAM, but also increased computing power together with the possibilities of the graphics subsystem.

Confirming an increase in the amount of RAM iPhone information was found on the Samsung website in the tables describing the features and characteristics of the produced Korean manufacturer processors. Among them was found and A6.

It should be made clear that the amount of memory in the table indicated in gigabits, and 8GB - is 1 GB (gigabytes) RAM. By analogy to the Apple A5 characteristics of these 4 GB, which means that 512 MB of RAM. Simply put, one gigabyte eight gigabit.

[via MacRumors]