Android phones with Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chips may beat the iPhone 16 Pro when it comes to AI, thanks to a new type of RAM

According to Korean website Ajunews (via Wccftech), the 8 Gen 4 could be the first smartphone chip to use LPDDR6 RAM, the next memory standard It is believed to benefit from higher data bandwidth compared to the current LPDDR5, LPDDR5X, and LPDDR5T standards

Ajunews reports that the semiconductor industry is finalizing the LPDDR6 standard, which is expected to be announced this fall Samsung and SK Hynix are reportedly likely to be the first to announce chips based on the new standard

There is also the possibility of waiting until 2025 to see LPDDR6 on chips, the report continues But while the next-generation Snapdragon chips could be the first to get there, Apple's A18 Pro chipset will apparently miss the boat, using LPDDR5 instead It won't be obsolete by the end of the year, but it may not be the best option on the market at that point

Android phones, for the most part, already have a technological advantage over the iPhone by simply having more RAM However, the different manufacturing methods and features of Snapdragon and Apple's A-series chips allow Apple to use less RAM due to the way its silicon is tuned However, the increase in RAM speed allegedly promised by LPDDR6 could be a new factor affecting the execution of multitasking, heavily loaded games, AI functions, and other apps

Many of the AI features currently in cell phones, such as the Galaxy AI in the Samsung Galaxy S24 series, rely on cloud processing and require an Internet connection to operate If much of this functionality could be offloaded to the device's own processor, the functionality would be more flexible and private, and users would not complain about getting the two

Models like the Galaxy S25 series, OnePlus 13, and other 2025 flagship Android phones are speculated to use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and thus LPDDR6 RAM The chip itself will likely be available this fall, with the first phones likely to appear before the end of the year

According to alleged benchmarks, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 could also outperform the A18 Pro in CPU However, to know for sure, we need to wait for both Android phones with the 4th generation and the iPhone 16 Pro to arrive in our labs and be tested