is it worth getting amd radeon ramdisk?

[Walker998]

while exploring amd's website one interesting thing i found was ramdisk, it seems inexpensive and is meant to improve memory performance.

currently i am using a amd athlon x4 860k, 8gb of hyperx savage 2400mhz (even thougth the cpu can only take advantage of around 2111 mhz).

is it worth the purchase or overall downloading it since there's a free version even thougth it only supports 4gb?

[ThatOneRussian]

youll find like next to no performance benefit 

[You_are_a_cunt]

No

[Oshino Shinobu]

If you used a 4GB RAMdisk, you'd then be limited to 4GB of system RAM. It's only worth it if you have the RAM to spare, which you don't have with only 8GB. 

[Lolucoca]

Why should you get a ramdisk with only 8 gigs of ram?! Also, normally, it isn't that much faster than a normal SSD...

[Walker998]

Why should you get a ramdisk with only 8 gigs of ram?! Also, normally, it isn't that much faster than a normal SSD...

isn't it for ram, not ssd's?

[AlwaysFSX]

Why should you get a ramdisk with only 8 gigs of ram?! Also, normally, it isn't that much faster than a normal SSD...

HAH. Wrong. It's waaaaaaay faster than an SSD.

[Stefan1024]

For gaming: No

For certain heavy memory intensive applications: Yes

[Lolucoca]

@AlwaysFSX But in general use, it's not. Linus once did a video about this. It would be much better to use like one gigabyte of RAM as cache for the HDD...

[Walker998]

For gaming: No

For certain heavy memory intensive applications: Yes

fair enough, maybe if i end up doing some type of modeling or editing in the future then perhaps, but still thanks i appreciate it considering i'm learning.

[daniellearmouth]

HAH. Wrong. It's waaaaaaay faster than an SSD.

 

It's way faster than an SSD, but that's like saying the pixel density of a monitor is 1200dpi so it's better than the one with 300dpi.

 

It's faster, but it's entirely unnecessary for certain workloads, and let's face it......you aren't going to notice that much improvement.

[Lolucoca]

I, personally wouldn't rcommend it at all. 8 gigs are just barely enough (at least for me)... Having a Ramdisk, you would be limited to 4 gigs of usable RAM... And, if you're a lot into multitasking, don't do it! Ramdisks are good for applications where the HDD is the primary bottleneck, like 10 gigabit networking. Also, you'll need quite some RAM to spare for the programs and windows you're running. I'd recommend Ramdisks only for PCs with 16+ gigs of RAM.

[Walker998]

I, personally wouldn't rcommend it at all. 8 gigs are just barely enough (at least for me)... Having a Ramdisk, you would be limited to 4 gigs of usable RAM... And, if you're a lot into multitasking, don't do it! Ramdisks are good for applications where the HDD is the primary bottleneck, like 10 gigabit networking. Also, you'll need quite some RAM to spare for the programs and windows you're running. I'd recommend Ramdisks only for PCs with 16+ gigs of RAM.

after the free 4gb version there's a 12gb which if i did get it i would choose or the tier above that which covers more than 16gb 

[Mooshi]

Set up an RAMdisc before for giggles and the performance numbers when benched completely destroyed my SSD's performance. That said, it's about as useful as a drag car off a drag strip. I mean yeah it's crazy fast, but also crazy impractical for majority of what most people use their computers for.

[Stefan1024]

fair enough, maybe if i end up doing some type of modeling or editing in the future then perhaps, but still thanks i appreciate it considering i'm learning.

Most good optimized professional applications cache the big data sets in the RAM anyway, that's why they need so much RAM. Creating a RAM disk will limit the RAM aviable for the application (because you only have 8 GB) and slow it down.

[Lolucoca]

@adamhouse9999 How can you use 12GB of RAM as a drive when you only have 8GB? That's the point of a Ramdisk. It uses some of your Ram as a drive to store, like games on it. It doesn't matter if you get the better version if you're physically limited to 8GB of ram. If you get the 4Gb version and set it up, you'll have theoretically only 4GB of RAM. That's not enough to run modern games on it. If youwould get the 12GB version, this program would allow you to create such drives with up to 12GB of your RAM. And that, my friend, wouldn't make any sense. You can't create such drives as big as you want if you don't have the physical RAM to do it? This Ramdisk uses 4 of your existing 8GB of Ram. When it's active, those 4GB of your Ram will not be usable.

[Walker998]

@adamhouse9999 How can you use 12GB of RAM as a drive when you only have 8GB? That's the point of a Ramdisk. It uses some of your Ram as a drive to store, like games on it. It doesn't matter if you get the better version if you're physically limited to 8GB of ram. If you get the 4Gb version and set it up, you'll have theoretically only 4GB of RAM. That's not enough to run modern games on it. If youwould get the 12GB version, this program would allow you to create such drives with up to 12GB of your RAM. And that, my friend, wouldn't make any sense. You can't create such drives as big as you want if you don't have the physical RAM to do it? This Ramdisk uses 4 of your existing 8GB of Ram. When it's active, those 4GB of your Ram will not be usable.

there's no 8gb version, anyway i'm not getting it now i know what it is.

[Lolucoca]

@adamhouse9999 No. For example, let's pretend you'd have 8GB of RAM in total and windows would be using 2GB of your RAM all the time. If you'd set up a 4GB Ramdisk, you would just have 2GB left for all your programs and games. And that's definetely not enough!

[AlwaysFSX]

It's way faster than an SSD, but that's like saying the pixel density of a monitor is 1200dpi so it's better than the one with 300dpi.

 

It's faster, but it's entirely unnecessary for certain workloads, and let's face it......you aren't going to notice that much improvement.

Depends what you're doing.

[daniellearmouth]

Depends what you're doing.

 

Ergo, "entirely unnecessary for certain workloads".

 

And besides, with 8GB, you're not going to get much out of a RAM disk anyway.