Is Virtual RAM on Android Worth It? | Deep Dive | GTR

Some call it Virtual RAM, some call it Dynamic RAM Expansion, some call it Extended RAM, and the story goes on and on. But, does it really matter? Like seriously, does it even make a difference? Well, that's what this video is all about.

This is Varun from GTR, and in today's video of our Deep Dive series, we will be taking a closer look at how this Virtual RAM feature works, and why you, as a consumer, shouldn't really be concerned about it. Or should you be? Hmm. Let's find out!

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[bharathraju]

Super Informational💯. Wish there were few brands that actually understood what makes a good smartphone and cut out all the gimmicky features, but i guess such brands would'nt survive in the market because of consumers who are easily fooled by such gimmicks.

[FreelancerCZ]

Ive bought Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 258 GB with 8gb RAM version about a month ago and I ve tried the +8 virtual RAM boost for about 3 weeks. I turned it off today and I HAVE TO ADMIT that the overall speed of my phone is now better (faster responce to typing, less lag on YouTube Revanced), glad to hear that even the long term health of the phone is better with the feature turned off.

Anyway thank you for this video. I am not usually a big fan of Indian youtubers whose (even tho I have a English degree in pedagogy) accent is so bad I cant even understand them. This was not that case plus the video was really informative. Thank you.

[mahendran.k]

Woow thank you so much for this video bro.. Everyone needs to know about this 🔥

[treygobadan]

Super helpful, stopped me from getting a device boasting about the additional virtual ram

[PKAdventures]

AAAGGG!!! those 2 black spots on the wall to your left made me think my screen was dirty, or that i had a problem with my screen, so i have basically no clue what you said in the video hahaha

but you still got a like from me for the unintentional troll lol

[TechKuya]

Love the callout to "are you stupid?" It might not be used to intentionally fool the consumer, but it sure causes a lot of confusion.

[magilu.magical.magilina]

i genuinely love this video. it made me understand about how vram works. i have a new phone that has 8gb ram and i enabled the expansion of additional 8gb virtual ram. now that i think about it, my phone never even consumes up to 5gb ram, so there was really no reason to enable the additional virtual ram. made me realize that i was slowly deteriorating my phone's health while being brand new. thank you so much for the information!

[codefuntime]

Hello, can a 6- or higher ram capacity support a low-grade chipset like the Unisoc T606, or does it have a limit, like it only needs 6- to lower ram?

[davidukah]

Very good content here. Just subscribed.

[julesm]

the problem is that, to access Vram or Zram is that the phone has to be rooted and EX kernel manager or some other similar a[[ is required to configure Vram or Zram. whwile the oneplus expansion ram can be configured manually without the need to root the device.

[arunverma]

Nice work bro.. please make latest tws video.. i am confused b/w samsung buds pro or OnePlus buds pro... I own OnePlus 9R..

[TejasNaik]

Thanks for the video. Super informational.

[i_am_felix]

Thanks very much bro very helpful video also informative

[Xuited]

so sad I came across this video now, you are gold!

[robertmile]

After some extensive research I can tell you there's no downside to this as explained to this video, because the thing they call "extended" ram already exists in android by default. These companies just give you some "extra control". This I why Samsung doesn't let you disable it completely, Xiaomi has it on by default

It's not a gimmick, it's a lie. It's part of android.

[sleazyfox]

Thanks for the vital information and clear explanation.

[anthonymalagueno]

Thanks for the information, I found the reason why my new phone heats up pretty quickly and why it has lower performace compare to the first time I used it. And thank you for speaking in english, it's just that I can't understand other languages other youtuber speak in their tutorials. Really tho, thank you so much

[sklynexd]

Even if you turn it off, swap is still at 3GB on my A54 basically the same when I have 2GB ram plus, it still has 3GB swap while higher options will actually make it bigger. So turning it off doesn't really do much just lowers the swap space to a minimum.

[amtestosterone]

My phone has about 2.2gb available ram out of 6gb should i use virtual ram?
Realme 9 5g speed edition

[irzncol]

Does anyone alse fell for that two dots on his upper left shoulder and tried to remove it thinking it was a speck of dust on your phone?