HOW MUCH RAM IN IPAD PRO 10.5?

Tablets are just "flatter" computers. Trust me, RAM is always the first thing you want to know when buying one, especially if you love video and gaming. A faster chip does NOT always equal a faster computer without the RAM to go with it. Just my take....

Apps are constantly updated and their size grows up accordingly. My old Ipad 3 was incredibly zippy when I got it, but nowadays it lags so much in pdf reading apps, in cbr comic reading apps and in safari as to make it almost unusable. Its processing power is adequate enough but it is ill-fitted with ram. Having more ram dramatically increases the ipad's longevity. I, for one, wouldn't even consider getting the 9.7 with 2 gb.

Yes it's 4 gbs I found out Tuesday the 13th when I received mine. Used the app named system status. Sorry I was too busy working and using my new iPad! And it was difficult to find this thread, until I got an email about the response about fixit.

Apple has never made the RAM specs of iPads public.

Ram is only known after some enterprising people get their hands on it and open it up to find out how much RAM is in it.

Considering there is no way to alter the RAM and no alternate configurations to be had, it seems rather pointless to know how much RAM it has. Its designed to work with the amount of RAM it will have and that's all it will ever have. RAM on iPads unlike other devices is not a really important spec.

With that said, it will likely be somewhere between 2GB and 4GB going by the previous iPad Pros.

In all honesty I've never seen any major difference in Safari in my iPad Air 2 and my iPad Pro 12". 2GB vs 4GB.

The difference between performance in Safari on an iPad with 1GB (iPad Air 1, or iPad Mini 4) and one with 2 GB has more to do with the processor and gpu, than the RAM in general.

Phil0124, The amount of RAM is definitely not pointless. It is the difference between me buying now or waiting. It would be nice if we could perpetually run more resource intensive and powerful apps with one or two GB of ram, but that is a pipe dream.

Bsnmate wrote:

Phil0124, The amount of RAM is definitely not pointless. It is the difference between me buying now or waiting. It would be nice if we could perpetually run more resource intensive and powerful apps with one or two GB of ram, but that is a pipe dream.

And I suspect Apple knows this, I don't think they expect us to run new apps and the new iOS 11 in less RAM than previous models. And I don't expect Apple to produce an iPad that cannot at least perform as well as previous models with the demands that will be placed on it.

So whether it has 2 or 4 I don't see that being an issue in its overall performance.

I would also like to know how much RAM it has. It is a very valuable spec to me because it determines how many layers can be used in procreate.

I am also of the belief that we won't know for sure until official release, but it is an important question none the less.

Here's the thing peoples.

The 12.9 inch screen iPad Pro has 4 GBs of RAM because some of that RAM, as well as the GPU, are used to drive just the larger sceen which is a LOT more than just 20% larger than the standard 9.7 inch screen iPad Pro.

So, my feelings is the slight increase in screen size probably doesn't need the extra RAM.

If the small increase in screen size needs more than 2 GBs of RAM, maybe the 10.5 inch screen iPad Pro could jump up to 3 GBs of RAM, instead of 2 GBs of RAM.

I don't see the 20% increased screen size hobbling the performance of the smaller iPad Pro even with only 2 GBs of RAM installed.

I don't see the smaller iPad Pro getting 4 GBs of RAM.

I am shocked that Apple do not seem to think this important to provide this information. When I buy anything I want to know every component that I am paying for. In the UK it is called transparency and is enshirned in consumer law. It also means that there is tracability in the supply chain.

runningshoe6927 wrote:

Tablets are just "flatter" computers. Trust me, RAM is always the first thing you want to know when buying one, especially if you love video and gaming. A faster chip does NOT always equal a faster computer without the RAM to go with it. Just my take....

True, but in the case of iPads, any game that runs on an iPad will do so in as good a way as it possibly can on any iPad that runs the iOS version it requires. A Game won't suddenly lag, or look horrible on an iPad with 2GB of RAM vs one with 4GB of RAM.

Heck most games that run on an iPad Pro with 4GB of RAM will do so as well on an iPad Air with 1GB of RAM.

The platform is designed to optimize RAM usage and resources so everything runs as close to a standard reference as possible regardless of the specs of the device.

Some games may have added features in newer more powerful iPads, but unlike regular PCs there will be no real difference in how the game works or plays. Unlike standard computer games you don't lose shading, or FPS, or graphic quality with less RAM on an iPad.

malum363 wrote:

Does anyone know? In its infinite wisdom Apple of course chooses to hide this metric.

If you mean storage...64/256/512GB. Buy iPad Pro - Apple