The new iPad Pros have significantly more RAM than previous generations, but it turns out that iOS still prevents applications from using too much..
On the 2021 range, the iPad Pro 128, 256 and 512 GB are all equipped with 8 GB of RAM. On the 1 and 2 TB variants, we go straight to 16 GB of RAM. A change of magnitude when we remember that the 2020s were uniformly equipped with 6 GB and that the 2018 was divided between 4 and 6 GB.
Much more RAM therefore on the large model, but that the most demanding applications – and therefore the most likely to be used on these tablets – can not monopolize as they wish. The developers of Procreate have it precise on the occasion of the release of an M1 optimized version of their drawing application.
A Procreate user (10,99 €) will not be able to take advantage of more RAM on the 16 GB model. The same goes for all the other apps since it is iOS which prevents going beyond a certain level, which must be established somehow. share below 8 GB (it would be around 5 GB against 3 GB previously).
In the case of Procreate this means that we will not be able to open more layers on an iPad with 16 GB of RAM than with 8 GB. But the new range still allows to exploit more than on the iPad Pro 2020 and earlier (115 layers with the 4K / 132 dpi canvas).
If you use two or three large apps together, these 16 GB remain interesting, but without changing the operating mode of iOS, a particularly greedy app can not deploy its full potential.
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