Lenovo Legion Y90 screenshots reveal more specs, confirm 18 GB RAM

09 February 2022
The screenshots are posted by a Product Director at Lenovo.

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  • Sin
  • 0Fj
  • 12 Aug 2022

Scram, 09 Feb 2022Gamers are not the sharpest tools in the shed. There is ... morePeople pay 1000 plus pound for s22 ultra

So for same kinda price Lenovo legion y90 with 18gb ram
Is better no reason

This a premium phone it should have a premium amount of ram

Games may only use 4gb ram as of 2022 but who only keeps a phone for 6 mouths too a year

You will want too play the latest AAA games in made in 2023 and 2024 games

2025
possibly sell the Lenovo legion y90 and buy a newer more powerful modal of Lenovo legion gaming phone

8gb ram is bare minimum needed for gaming in 2022 but it doesn't hurt too future proof plus have better performance multi tasking etc

No point in buying a phone that's obsolete in a year's that's a awful choose for gamers and bad value for money

First Reason why

First of all game developers and games getting more demanding and less well optimized unfortunately

I would much prefer game developers made all games able too run on 2gb ram phones that was said too be you needed back then

So a phone that fine in 2022 won't be in 2024

Second reason why

Just because a game 4gb ram don't make 4gb ram phones good enough for gaming
There's no breathing room for anything in the background and os
Let's say you want too monitor your in game FPS and record your gameplay and listen too music in the background
Your not going have enough ram

Third reason if you have a massive game library let's say 50-100 games

This phone is a pc too you
It's your gaming pc but with android and can make phone calls and texts and is portable
Ram usage will be just in background somewhere around 8gb in just the os just because of game storage and additional browsers

So basically buy a step up from what you think you will need
thank me later for the advice

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    • Chris
    • ib9
    • 17 Feb 2022

    among the rest this is the only series come with active air cooling out of the box which a gaming phone truly need. it will sell like hotcake if OS is proven no trouble. No matter how go bionic chip is, it still suffer heating issue for long time gaming.

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      • Gregzeng
      • bJx
      • 12 Feb 2022

      Anonymous, 09 Feb 2022Well I get your point but you're only talking about wh... moreVideo editing, then compiling, is best done with such large memory. This can be time consuming. So multitasking, such as reading, might also be done.

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        • Anonymous
        • sUS
        • 10 Feb 2022

        Anonymous, 10 Feb 2022my iphone 4s has 32 gb That's internal storage, not Ram.

          Scram, 09 Feb 2022Gamers are not the sharpest tools in the shed. There is ... moreEggns exists, already uses around 10 gb ram. Pc emulator Exagear is getting more playable, and then theres windows on arm, getting drivers from qualcomm powered laptops and porting windows to similar soc phones is already a thing. You just didnt look much.

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            • Anonymous
            • d%$
            • 10 Feb 2022

            my iphone 4s has 32 gb

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              • Anonymous
              • s8i
              • 09 Feb 2022

              Scram, 09 Feb 2022Gamers are not the sharpest tools in the shed. There is ... moreWell I get your point but you're only talking about what single application makes use of all that RAM. The answer is clearly none, but then while multi-tasking, it is required to have that much RAM and it clearly makes a difference. Most phone companies design their custom OS in a way that all that RAM isn't really needed, because of aggressive battery management, and the phone software will just close apps in the background if they are lying unused, or if keep increasing in number, but with the restrictions being removed, then it does make a difference. Gaming phones manage RAM differently, and apps remain open in the background for longer periods, and then one can start to see how RAM is important in a gaming phone at least. On a regular phone it doesn't make much sense tho

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                • wrathgor
                • nx3
                • 09 Feb 2022

                Are there any gaming phones(I mean, by design, not specs) that also have flagship-level main and selfie camera setup? All of them look very cool and take my attention but they all have an average camera setup as I see.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • s8i
                  • 09 Feb 2022

                  Scram, 09 Feb 2022Preach!rAmen 🍜✌️

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                    • Anonymous
                    • s8i
                    • 09 Feb 2022

                    Anonymous, 09 Feb 2022Storage yes, but who really needs all that ram?Well I was talking not for only smartphones, but in general, that in theory, there is no such thing as too much RAM. Just needs the right gadget to implement it, and the right software to utilise it and the right task to make use of it. What looks like a lot today will become just average in future

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                      • Scram
                      • MXj
                      • 09 Feb 2022

                      Anonymossy, 09 Feb 2022People that have a lot of apps open in the background of th... moreGamers are not the sharpest tools in the shed.

                      There is a reason why 18GB is overkill for virtually all mobile games at the moment. It's because studios have to make games that most people can run smoothly. The vast majority of phones on the planet still use a humble 3-4GB of RAM.

                      Any studio that tries to create an elite game that can only run on 8GB+ phones, requiring 16GB+ to run at ultra settings will go bankrupt. It'll be the greatest mobile game ever, but it'll generate pennies.

                      This creates the catch-22 where year after year, game graphics, mechanics, and physics barely improve, while microtransactions multiply; and the intellectually-challenged "gamers" paradoxically wonder why they can't have ray tracing in mobile games.

                      Should 18 or 22 GB of RAM be made flagship standard; that'd egg OEMs to drop 2 and 3 GB from entry-level mobiles. 4-6; 8-12; 16-22 would become the new brackets for entry, mid-range, and flagship phones. And studios will update their games to leverage the better hardware.

                      PC gamers are facing the same quagmire. Studios are intentionally gimping their releases so they can target console gamers and the 8 GB RAM wannabe "gamers". Unreal Engine 5 is being developed to need a minimum 64GB of RAM. But I am very certain, studios will not use all the perks, niceties, and tech advancements available in UE5, just so they can cater to the 8 GB RAM crowd.

                      Consequently, the entire industry continues to languish even though the technology to run Simulator 2020 at 4K 120 fps exists; and we've not had an era defining game release like Crysis in over a decade. But at every turn, the inbred smooth brains responsible for the stagnation and mediocrity can't refrain from yelling no one needs "X" amount of RAM because they can't afford to let go of their 4GB RAM clusterf**k of a device they bought eons ago.

                      If it were up to these Luddites, we'll still be playing NES games on clunky contraptions with catridges. As their argument would be no one needs a console with 64 KB of RAM (the original NES had a puny 16 KB of RAM. That's Kilobyte).

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                        • Anonymous
                        • sUS
                        • 09 Feb 2022

                        Anonymous, 09 Feb 2022There is. If you'll never use it. That's paying... moreYou forgot about emulators, whether the console types or VMOS for Android emulation.
                        Stick to your iPhones.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • sUS
                          • 09 Feb 2022

                          Inve, 09 Feb 2022Finally, a phone for people who can barely make phonecalls ... moreReminder: Don't buy a product that has a feature that you do not like/appreciate or won't utilize.

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                            • Rly
                            • MxZ
                            • 09 Feb 2022

                            Any opinions here around their OS?
                            How is it?
                            Which OS will you compare it to, if?
                            How are their updates? If any?

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                              • Inve
                              • S3c
                              • 09 Feb 2022

                              Finally, a phone for people who can barely make phonecalls with 16 GiB of RAM.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 7JS
                                • 09 Feb 2022

                                At the end of the day, it's your decision if you want to buy it.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 6wN
                                  • 09 Feb 2022

                                  Anonymous, 09 Feb 2022There is. If you'll never use it. That's paying... moreBetter safe than sorry. More is always welcome.

                                    2 or 3 years worth of updates takes us to andriod 15,i can easily see 12gb being NEEDED, andriod gets fatter, more full of bloat every release, and no more efficient at hardware use.
                                    Stealing cache memory from storage to use as ram is hardly new.
                                    Your dead sure the ssd means sd card ? mini ssd makes sense, just for sheer speed of write/read times, magnitudes quicker than any sc cards can even theoreticaly hit, let alone real world speeds.
                                    If its a cost dont matter device, ssd extra price dont matter..

                                      Anonymous, 09 Feb 2022Storage yes, but who really needs all that ram?People that have a lot of apps open in the background of their phone probably do need some extra RAM, but even then they'll probably only need a maximum of 10GB or maybe 12GB, since most apps are quite optimized to use a small amount of RAM. 18GB is essentially overkill, at least right now, but even when phone games start using more than 8GB, it'll be a very long time until they use a full 18GB.

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                                        • Huawei P30 Pro user
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                                        • 09 Feb 2022

                                        Okay Lenovo, you now have my attention.

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