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Originally Posted by tomsem
Apropos of nothing, but l wonder if anyone here knows of any app that is actually capable of using 12GB on the 16GB M1 MacBook Pros?
Or failing this, I cannot even find any benchmarks or comparisons that would indicate what other advantages 16GB might confer over 8GB in terms of performance, multitasking, etc.
At minimum I’d expect apps to get kicked out of memory less often.
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No clue about MacBook Pro M1, but I saw several long-term reviews on the MacBook Air M1 which said that the 8GB models had a tendency to get rather warm under intensive tasks like 4K video processing, but the 16GB models seemed to not have that issue. I would assume the 8GB models will write to the SSD more often than the 16GB models, which will possibly create heat and definitely wear out the SSD faster. I’m not a gamer, but I suspect heavy gaming would require a lot more RAM, and would likely make good use of the extra GPU core which the 8GB models don’t have. 8GB models have 7 GPU cores but 16GB models have 8 GPU cores.
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