ASUS TF300 the first Android device to TRULY have 1GB of RAM?

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I posted this in another thread but thought it was worthy of its own thread.

I've owned a lot of Android devices with 1GB of RAM - Xoom, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Note, and the original Transformer. This is the first android device that actually shows 1gb of ram. Every 1gb phone or tablet I've had only lists around 750mb total, and then only about 400 or so free on a fresh boot. The explanation has always been that 1gb is shared ram and that the mixing 250mb or so is for video ram. You can see total and available ram in an app called OSMonitor. Anyway, the tf300 actually shows 1gb total ram, and 750 free on a fresh boot. So that's an extra 250mb of usable ram over other devices.

Thoughts?

The device has more as 1GB RAM (1,2GB maybe)?

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It's advertised as 1GB of RAM, so either it has more actual RAM (1.2 like you suggest) or it has dedicated video RAM somehow.

It's very possible this is inherent to Tegra3. I do not have any Tegra 3 devices to check. I'm going to ask in the Prime Q&A section.

Obviously either a design flaw or outright false advertisement. You should sue them for giving you more ram than advertised.

Originally Posted by goodintentions

Obviously either a design flaw or outright false advertisement. You should sue them for giving you more ram than advertised.

WTF? I'm not complaining I'm trying to understand it. It's different than every other Android device.

Originally Posted by EvoXOhio

WTF? I'm not complaining I'm trying to understand it. It's different than every other Android device.

Goodintentions is known to be sarcastic you will learn that in time. Most likley it is because tegra 3's gpu has its own dedicated ram so it does not go into the system ram

Originally Posted by mrevankyle

Goodintentions is known to be sarcastic you will learn that in time. Most likley it is because tegra 3's gpu has its own dedicated ram so it does not go into the system ram

That would explain it. do you have a source link to back that up? not finding anything in a google search.

Thanks.

Everything im finding is that it just has the 1gb of ram, but possibly the way it handles it is different and may expand or shrink that video ram depending on what it needs.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-3-processor.html

just general info

also is DDR3

Originally Posted by jblah

also is DDR3

Yeah DDR3 means it's faster and has more bandwidth, but that wouldn't affect whether the system has dedicated or shared video RAM.