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Even if you're a hobbyist it looks like the 8GB Pro is not a great choice (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Just-Some-Reddit-Guy@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] FollowingFeisty5321@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The amazing thing is 8GB might not even be enough for the iPhone anymore, the stuttering and frame spikes in Resident Evil could easily be caused by not having enough RAM and having to shuffle art assets between storage and memory.

On the other hand, it's a hard game to actually recommend playing on an iPhone. Performance is compromised with frequent frame-time spikes and punctuated occasionally by severe bouts of stutter.

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2023-full-fat-resident-evil-village-on-iphone-is-a-captivating-tech-demo-but-hard-to-recommend-playing

[–] rorschach200@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

could easily be caused by not having enough RAM and having to shuffle art assets between storage and memory

In iOS there is no swap:

In iOS, there is no backing store and so pages are are never paged out to disk, but read-only pages are still be paged in from disk as needed.

(https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/ManagingMemory/Articles/AboutMemory.html )

Which counterintuitively actually makes it more RAM capacity demanding than macOS. macOS's 2-stage swapping with compression (and absurdly fast NVME) is in fact quite good, iOS has to fit in RAM and RAM only.

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