We’re almost a week away from Apple’s Glowtime event, which finally lifted the lid on the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, and many have been wondering how much RAM is in each device.
It’s perhaps more interesting this year, as Apple has previously mentioned a certain RAM threshold as to why the iPhone 16 can use Apple Intelligence features while the iPhone 15 can’t, but a new interview with Apple’s Senior Vice President of Hardware Technology Johny Srouji has confirmed the amount in each of the new phones.
Geekerwan spoke with Srouji (thanks to 9to5Mac ), who explained the reasons behind packing 8GB of RAM into all iPhone 16 models.
Johny Srouji on 8 GB RAM iPhone
“Our goal is to build the best products that provide the absolute best user experience. When it comes to Apple Intelligence, DRAM is one aspect. And when we look at what we build, whether it’s silicon, hardware or software, we don’t want to be wasteful in many ways,” explains Srouji.
“We have a lot of data that tells us what will enable a certain feature, and Apple Intelligence is one of those very, very important features that we want to enable.”
“And we’ll look at different configurations, both for compute and memory bandwidth and memory capacity. And then we’ll make the right trade-off and balance of what really makes the most sense. So Apple Intelligence was the main feature that led us to believe that we needed to get to 8GB.”
Srouji also notes how the 8GB of RAM will help other aspects of the iPhone experience, including “high-end AAA title games.”
He also highlighted the merits of Apple’s efficient cores and pointed to single-threaded performance across Apple’s lineup.
“If you look at the single-threaded performance core across all of our silicon, it’s the absolute best in the industry. We’re at the top of the industry. If you look at the efficiency cores, we’re the absolute best. We lead in a big way.”