Best 12GB RAM Mobile Phones in India (September 2023)

Smartphones are coming with more and more RAM packed in as the years pass by. It is ridiculous to think that merely 10-12 years ago, premium smartphones used to only pack 1 GB or 2 GB RAM. And now, we’ve got even budget devices sporting 8 GB RAM. 12 GB RAM is usually standard on high-end or premium smartphones these days but you’ve got the odd mid-range smartphone here and there housing a whopping 12 GB RAM as well – one such example is the Redmi Note 12 Pro+ which has a 12 GB RAM variant and is priced at just ₹32,999 at the time of writing. Do you need 12 GB RAM on a smartphone, you ask? Well, it depends on your use case. If you are a heavy multitasker and play a lot of intensive smartphone games, 12 GB RAM could actually end up being beneficial. If you’re buying a premium phone, we suggest at least 8 GB RAM, although 12 GB is great to have as well. Apart from that, manufacturers are increasingly shipping their phones with virtual RAM as well which partitions part of the internal storage and uses it as extra ‘virtual’ RAM. While this is not as effective as real RAM, it can make a difference, especially if you have a phone with very low base RAM. But, you don’t exactly need it on phones that already house 12 GB RAM. Some examples of smartphones with 12 GB RAM are the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, Vivo X90 Pro, and Xiaomi 13 Pro.