Google’s Pixel 10 sports 12GB of RAM, just like last year’s Pixel 9 . However, less of that RAM is available for apps and games to use because on the Pixel 10, about 3GB are reserved for AI.

Some digging by Android Authority spotted that roughly 3GB of RAM are reserved for the AICore service, meaning it can’t be used even if the other roughly 9GB get used up for other tasks. The reason for this? Ensuring that on-device AI models launch nearly instantaneously.

The issue comes down to launch speeds. When people launch something on their phone (or other electronics like computers), the device must fetch the necessary pieces from the device’s storage and load it into the RAM. Most apps don’t use a ton of RAM, and therefore launch quite quickly. More intensive software, like games, takes long

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