UPDATED 00:42 EST / SEPTEMBER 14 2015

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Developer reveals iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus has 2GB of RAM, iPad Pro has 4GB of RAM

While it has been long-rumored that Apple’s new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus would receive not only a more powerful processor but also a significant bump in RAM to 2GB, we have seen no evidence of the bump in RAM to date.

At launch, Apple revealed that the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus would come with the company’s more powerful A9 chip but, as usual, did not share how much RAM the devices would have. The same goes for the iPad Pro unveiled at the same event.

Now, using asset catalogs with the Xcode 7 GM, developer Hamza Sood has seemingly confirmed that the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus have 2GB of RAM, up from the 1GB of RAM in the outgoing iPhone 6 range, and the iPad Pro has 4GB of RAM, up from 2GB of RAM found in the iPad Air 2. (via 9to5Mac)

Sood’s discovery follows a press release on Wednesday by Adobe in which the company prematurely shared that the iPad Pro has 4GB of RAM (via MacRumors). Adobe subsequently removed the reference to the iPad Pro’s chip and RAM from the release.

iPad Pro is great for creative workflows with a high res 12.9″ touch screen display at 2732 x 2048 pixels, A9X chip, and 4GB RAM.

Evolution of iPhone, iPad RAM

When the iPhone made its debut in 2007, the device had just 128MB of RAM. In 2009, Apple doubled the iPhone’s RAM with the introduction of the iPhone 3Gs and did so again in 2010 with the iPhone 4 to include 512MB of DRAM to support increased performance and multi-tasking.

The iPhone 5, released in 2012, was the first to have 1GB of RAM and that’s where Apple got stuck. The iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus all had only 1GB of RAM at a time when Android smartphones were shipping with 2GB to 3GB of RAM.

The lack of RAM was somewhat countered by Apple switching to LPDDR3 from LPDDR2 for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 range, making the memory faster. It remains to be seen if Apple has switched to the new LPDDR4 RAM standard for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.

As for the iPad, the 2012 iPad 3 had 1GB of RAM, followed by an increase to 2GB of RAM for the iPad Air 2 in 2014. Apple also switched to LPDDR3 for the iPad range.

The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus is available for preorder now with shipments slated to start on September 25. The iPad Pro is slated for release in November.

Image via Apple.com

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