Turning off Samsung RAM Plus improves performance? Let`s check!

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Turning off Samsung RAM Plus improves performance? Let`s check!

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[michaelkeudel]

You have a phone with 12GB ram, your test is meaningless because even with the option on, you'll never use virtual ram until you fill the 12 gb RAM up first.

[Endermania]

I think this test will be more relevant with phones with lower ram

[alex_wfa]

Been testing this on the s23u, 12GB variant. Only difference I can feel with it off, it's slower in loading my modes and routines after a restart. Overall performance and feel, navigation, multitasking, video editing, no difference at all, same exact results. Battery, no difference. Ram benchmark is inconsistent but had multipe runs over the day. On average, the sequencial read speed is higher with ram plus off, but random read speed is lower, the rest are more or less equal, no matter if it's on or off. Personally I just keep it on at 8GB, as it came by default.

[JDRos]

I got better battery life with it off.
Also I think the better test is how many apps your phone can keep running without restarting the app state instead of video rendering which will depend more on the cpu/gpu than the ram.

[phongdohoang]

I think Samsung has reason to include this option, and it's on by default too. I think they're smart enough and has done researching before giving us that option. I have Z fold 4, i leave it to default, and i don't have any issue, no lag, everything running smoothly, so i found no reason to turn it off and i have enough storage to store my documents, files. So, the best practice is leave it to default, unless you are running out of storage

[seanclyderodil]

It's weird after I turned off the Ram plus performance is way better in terms of Homescreen navigation.

[photoniccannon]

Multitasking is generally one of the biggest advantages of it for low-RAM devices. It will reduce how often apps need to be killed/refreshed since Android can just swap out data that hasn't been recently accessed.

[ashar]

I would personally turn it off, as the write and deleting operations on your UFS storage causes unnecessary wear. We don't know how many write/delete operations are done, but this is just my personal opinion

[pietricello]

Well, without boring you all with numbers i was curious and tried with my new z flip 4 (888+ gen1) it has 8GB RAM/128GB storage. Based on cdpt rough tests without 4GB RamPlus the performance are more than double compared with the tests with RamPlus enabled but...not replicable. I mean that when i switched to ramplus back again to no plus and did the same tests the results was totally different! Speaking about Geekbench 5 that is a more exaustive test suite the results are pretty similar in both conditions even if ..whoever knows GB5 knows that even it gives different results every time :-) So what i deducted from this? 1) it is obvious that without the virtual memory the rough memory ops. are faster in ram than in ram+virtual ram but in the reality the meanings of RamPlus is intended for who don't care to close apps even once a day just to recover one of the 20/30 apps running in background. People with 8Gb Ram or more could avoid enable this feature because i don't think it will speed up the overall everyday use. More probable it will a little bit decrease the performance but nothing of hugely noticeable. Then, in the end, for me is a useless feature.

[WEKM]

I'm not surprised. Samsung wouldn't have included virtual ram unless it was actually an improvement.

[SimFootballFanatic]

You should have restarted your phone before the first test. You had multiple apps/tabs open, which could have easily influenced the results.

[mit]

I wish someone would test with 4gb 6gb devices like Tab S7fe

[yukc]

I'm getting better performance with it enabled and set to 4 GB (aka the default setting) compared to it disabled. Weird. My device is Galaxy A53 5G, 6/128, running One UI 6.1.

[MZRTMusic]

I thought the wear and tear issue for SSDs was already fixed if not improved?Plus its not very often your phone will be forced to use virtual ram unless you're lazy and find closing apps too much of a burden or you run applications that require more memory and CPU power than your phone is capable of sustaining for long periods. As per my own experience, I've only noticed reduced performance in memory intensive sessions like gaming when internal storage is above 100gb/128gb. Note that I have 6GB physical RAM and a RAM PLUS of 6GB. On or off I can't tell the difference in performance and battery life unless the storage is above 100gb/128gb

[dhaivatpathak]

Even i have doubt about adaptive battery, i think i get better screen on time when adaptive battery off, sir please test and make a video about it too

[vimalramachandran]

Battery life is the key here. If that improves with RAM Plus turned off, then a minor hit in performance wouldn't matter.

[kylesgrave]

Did you test the battery on s22 and s23?

[edmundb]

Ram plus will only kick in if you multi task and your physical memory is lesser than 6gig. And so there's nothing wrong if you keep it turned on or else Samsung will not turn it on by default if it always kicks in to cause wear and tear as thought by others.

[BitATEternalSlow]

I managed to put virtual ram on my samsung s9 from 4gb to 12gb through memory swapper, for me in use editing and games much better. I think that as in cell phones that already have a lot of memory, this option is not as efficient yet.

[no_cap]

my s20 fe 5g sd865 6gb ram was experiencing frame drops in codm battle royal it would some time drop to 40 fps for 2 - 3 seconds.
Since I set ram plus on 6gb I no longer get those frame drops. I've tries 2gb and 4gb however I still got the frame drops so 6gb seems to fix the issue.
Even tho I don't think the vram is being used for the game it probably allocated the main ram towards to game and the vram for other background applications