AMD Radeon RAMDisk Released

[StAndrew]

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Wha? Since when has anyone ever cached RAM on a hard drive?

Edit: I just realized the absurdity of this comment. You do it everyday. Im doing it now and so are you unless you turned it off....

It's taking a portion of your available RAM and creates a caching tier that it will cache data from HDD/SSD onto.

Page file

I know what page filing is. If you have enough RAM to create a RAM Disk to page file, you dont need to page file. Just turn it off...

[Lanek]

All infos here:

http://blogs.amd.com/play/2012/10/10...adeon-ramdisk/

[StAndrew]

All infos here:

http://blogs.amd.com/play/2012/10/10...adeon-ramdisk/

I found this interesting:

Test conducted in AMD Labs measuring read and write speed performance of AMD Radeon™ RAMDisk using Crystal Disk Mark 3.0.1 benchmark versus the HDD. Hard disk had sequential read speed of 72.7MB/s and write speed of 70.92MB/s versus the RAMDisk sequential read speed of 6150MB/s and write speed of 8694MB/s. Specifications: CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K RAM: 16 GB AMD Entertainment Edition Memory 1600 Mhz 8-9-8-24, Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-VDeluxe, System: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition: HDD: Western Digital Raptor 10000 RPM 73 GB: RAMDisk: 8GB. RMD-2

[Generic user #2]

Edit: I just realized the absurdity of this comment. You do it everyday. Im doing it now and so are you unless you turned it off....

keyword: caching

definition of cache: "component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster"

a pagefile is not used for speed purposes; it's used for storage purposes.

[StAndrew]

keyword: caching

definition of cache: "component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster"

a pagefile is not used for speed purposes; it's used for storage purposes.

You're splitting hairs. I still dont see why you would make a RAM disk for page file .

[Generic user #2]

You're splitting hairs. I still dont see why you would make a RAM disk for page file .

...splitting hairs? thats the entire purpose of a cache in the first place. if its not to improve speed, what the hell is the point of L1, L2, and L3?

not sure why you're so confused...its just a ramdisk.

[StAndrew]

...splitting hairs? thats the entire purpose of a cache in the first place. if its not to improve speed, what the hell is the point of L1, L2, and L3?

not sure why you're so confused...its just a ramdisk.

The way I read it, it was to improve page file speeds (ie, for me, cache the RAM). In my experience, if you have enough RAM to create a RAM disk for page file, just turning off Page file would be more benefitial . I can see how installing programs on the RAM disk for quicker loading would be nice...

[bearcatrp]

The way I read it, it was to improve page file speeds (ie, for me, cache the RAM). In my experience, if you have enough RAM to create a RAM disk for page file, just turning off Page file would be more benefitial . I can see how installing programs on the RAM disk for quicker loading would be nice...

Been reading this thread with interest. Do have a few questions as am unsure of a few things. Your saying if I have plenty of ram, currently have 48GB, I can shut off my page file and Win7 will force the page file to my ram without any ramdisk or anything else? Am currently using a 128GB SSD as my page file, which seems to have sped my computer up a little bit. Currenly showing about 150mb in page file under task manager.

[StAndrew]

Been reading this thread with interest. Do have a few questions as am unsure of a few things. Your saying if I have plenty of ram, currently have 48GB, I can shut off my page file and Win7 will force the page file to my ram without any ramdisk or anything else? Am currently using a 128GB SSD as my page file, which seems to have sped my computer up a little bit. Currenly showing about 150mb in page file under task manager.

Most avg users can safely turn off page file with 8GB. It really depends on what you do. If you exceed your ram capacity and dont have a page file setup for your system to empty some of your ram data onto, it will be forced to kick one of your running programs out, causing that program to crash. With 48GB of ram, I dont think you would have this issue.