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Compare performance between 12gb ram (8gb + 4gb) and 8gb ram (4gb x 2)

Anonymous
2022-08-24T13:27:50+00:00

Hi everyone who read this post, I have a question about compare performance about ram. Please say which is better choice 12gb ram (4+8 gb) or 8gb ram (4x2 gb) about gaming, work (like office, coder, virtual machine), etc. Thank you so much. All the ram is same as about speed bus, cas, design (amount chips of ram, ranked ram), just different memory storage.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-08-24T15:23:01+00:00

    No one can categorically say that 12 GB of RAM is faster than 8 GB of RAM. Your software will not use more RAM than it requires no matter how much RAM you give it. To illustrate: If an application doesn't normally use more than 6 GB of RAM, giving it 12 GB of RAM is not going to make it run faster.

    To give an analogy: Is a 12-cylinder car faster than a 4-cylinder car? When they're parked in the driveway, they are the same. When they're driving to the grocery store, they are the same. It's only on the highway where the 12-cylinder car shows itself to be faster.

    So in order to decide how much RAM your computer needs, you have to know which applications you typically run together and how much RAM they are likely to use under typical circumstances.

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  2. DaveM121 868.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-08-24T14:04:46+00:00

    Hi skyherobrine,

    I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    The more RAM you have the bester your PC will perform, so, 12GB of RAM will be better than 8GB of RAM, so 4GB + 8GB will be better than 4GB + 4GB for performance.

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  3. DaveM121 868.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-08-24T15:00:45+00:00

    Hi skyherobrine,

    That is definitely not true, Windows just treats RAM as numeric locations, Windows does not know or care if you have 8 + 4 Gb or 4 + 4Gb of RAM, Windows just cares about the total amount of RAM.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-08-24T14:51:26+00:00

    I have said above: compare about gaming, work (like office, coder, virtual machine). I will give more details my application using:
    About gaming I have played: LOL, Minecraft.
    Work: Office (word, excel, powerpoint)
    Coder: Web Design, Application for Mobile Development, SQL, etc
    Virtual Machine: I also create virtual machine like: Ubuntu, MacOS, etc
    Is it enough information for you that you can compare help me for best choice?

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-08-24T13:37:54+00:00

    You cannot compare the two without specifying which application is running on the computer.

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