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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Actually, the phone still has a swap file. At least on the Z Fold 4, It has 3GB of swap. I found out when I disabled it and it still showed 3GB in Diskinfo. This swap is nor directly managed by One UI but by Android itself. You would have less swap if you chose 2GB instead of turning it off.

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

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

Are you running beta software? Cus when you take a screenshot it is painfully slow. Didnt they fix that after beta 3?

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.

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

Thank for the video. Any update on battery drain findings?

Interesting video & findings. My observation is that Linux has tendency to use available RAM. However, it seems that current memory utilisation display Apps are not showing true picture. Why I reach this conclusion? If you observe with or without RAM Plus Option when you check your RAM utilisation, it's well below available RAM of 12 GB but test results are indicating that with RAM Plus enabled tasks are performed faster. My logic is that with current SoCs there might be enough processing power and when you throw read write tasks it is leveraging RAM Plus feature to complete it faster. Is there any way to check RAM utilisation during this task (not before or after but real-time)? Because before & after memory utilisation is well below. But during read/ write or render is it leveraging that RAM plus/ swap to complete task faster? P.S. I still prefer to take performance hit by disabling RAM Plus to protect long term storage health.

MY A54 5G ONE UI 5.1 ANDROID 13 Sequential write - 343.26 Mb/s Sequential read - 487.90 Mb/s Random write - 22.99 Mb/s Random read - 18.21 Mb/s Memory copy - 5.92 Gb/s

For typical usage (not gaming and not rendering etc.), I suppose turning on RAM plus should make the UI multi tasking experience smoother and apps will present faster?

Did you test the battery on s22 and s23?

it would be great if you do a video lsiting every changes and new features that come with one ui 5. All youtubers are only listing the main additions! Some youtubers in apple community are make hour long videos listing every single changes on ios16! i dont know any other youtuber makes similar videos on samsung phones :)

Please which one is better in terms of performance and battery draining.. enable or disable ram plus?

My realme x7 max has 12gb ram after realme ui 4.0 earlier it had 7gb virtual ram and now it has 12gb virtual ram 🫠🤣

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.

Turning On Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra RAM Plus improves performance particularly in Games 🎮 less heat 🔥 👍 this is my experience.

(personal experience)For 6GB Ram phone users, disable it would be a good options, when restarting your phone, disabling it will be faster. And no changes on the battery life.

My phone, Galaxy M34 5G, heats up faster when RAM Plus is turned off, so I set it up at the lowest 2GB and I feel less heating, and slightly better battery life. The one draining my battery turns out to be Adaptive Battery, so I turn that off as well

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.

what it is is just heat! on the first tests phone was cooler, thats it, always disable virtual ram if more than 8gb and just close the apps

I'm such a Newby. I watched a few of these ram videos still no idea . I've had mine on for years now. I've turned I off I'm after better battery life and performance. Any tips please 🙏 thank you

Hello my Note 10 does not have a toggle in the settings to turn off the RAM Plus. Any tips?

Finally in your video much better explanation about this feature RAM plus. Thanks mate!

any personal thoughts for an a21s 6gb phone

Anything improved with one UI 6? OR still the same verdict (putting it off)

You just enabled Ram plus, but didn’t expanded to 6

I think its make no sens u rurn on and of the ram plus and testing the cpu performance instead of ram volume.... more ram more apps keep open i think this is the point of haveing nore ram

What does using virtual ram wear out your storage? Also, if a phone is marketed as having twelve gigabytes of ram, is that not counting the virtual storage, or is that with it? My z fold four has twelve gigs of ram and you can add eight gigs with ram plus. 20 gigs seems... not right. This is something I never really thought about before, does anybody know

Not that big of a difference, but RAM plus KILLS battery !!! I turned it off on my s20 ultra and my battery is a lot better for me.

More physical storage allocated ,will also mean faster random reads and writes , so max setting is best

RAM plus will not damage the device people. It would take over 10 years for it to show damaged on the SSD. At that point you're three phones out.

If I have phone 4ram should I enable it to 4 more?

I think its part of planned obsolescence they give you the option to turn it off or turn it on so its on you....maybe they make it sound cool so you have it on, on max and then your phones life span is shorter, but remember its on you! If your phone last 6 months less remember on scale thats millions of dollars

My phone is 8gb ram +8gb ram if needed when gaming but how do i know it turn on and i have an option that says Ram plus its on 4gb and there are option to put it on 6gb and 8gb do i change it to 6 or 8 or leave it at 4 i want to keep battery life and keep goob temperature and quality

I have s21 ultra 16gb ram variant and I turned it off and now after few days of using i noticed phone less heating and lot smooth.and i think leaving it on impacts on ufs storage because it always does read/write all the time

We just need an answer on battery life test

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I have the 24 ultra, with it off its just fine, but even with 2 ,or 6 vir.its faster

I have a Samsung Galaxy A03s with 3 GB of RAM, a very basic phone. It definitely is faster with Ram+ turned on. If I had a more expensive Galaxy with at least 6 GB RAM I would probably turn it off. So, it helps with low-end phones but not necessarily on the high-end ones. just my opinion.

0:30 Its's not an "swap file" it is an swap partition...

If Samsung has included Ram plus then of course for a reason. 💙 Btw appreciate ur efforts man❤️

Is ram Plus good for the A52 5g ?

I have s10e. I cannot turn RAM plus off. But i have 2 ,4 ,6 gb to choose from My day to day phone usage are almost identical 4 gb was what I'm used to 2 gb seems to make my phone gets hot easily, phone seems to be slower, laggy, battery drain way faster (charge 3-4x more than 4 gb) ... now I'm using 6 gb to test it out for a day

On s22 fe 1000% the experience is laggy with ram plus on Turning it off made it snappy like my previous s20+

To anyone that has a S21 FE 5G Exynos 2100 variant, do yourself a favor and turn on RAM Plus. It will solve your Camera Lag problem. The 6BG RAM is just not enough. The CPU struggles to flush the RAM to load new data. RAM plus allows it to retrieve it that 1 second faster, which helps a lot in the bloated CAMERA App.

so is it more effective when we turn it off, there seems to be little difference

Dont forget also we have ufs 4.0 helps The virtual look The speeds and The ram The ufs

I don't think it should make a difference. Imo RAM Plus is supposed to use a part of your storage as RAM if the installed RAM in your phone is full.

Disabling ram plus, increasesd my available physical ram & my battery life

When i turn off that features my phone now has no display😢... but has power what can i do now???

!! IT IS TRUE !!!! i have OnePlus 7TPro AND this RAM boost only SLOWED DOWN my deviceeeee !!!!

This works for 6gb ram below till 8gb, it makes your phone faster helping the actual ram with the virtual ram... theres no need to argue with, samsungs manufacturers and techs did not just put that in there if that will harm the phone.. a decades of improvements

You need to take readings from multiple runs and average them out, you're not accounting for run to run variance that could be caused by background tasks or heat in the CPU etc...

Anyone here no why I dont have a switch at the top to actually turn off Ramplus? Makes no sense

When switching off ram plus, the phone restarted. What if the restart killed some background processes and cleared cache so improved the performance of the device before the second test?

It is automatically adjusted depending upon how much is free on your actual memory, I would leave it that way, only run 2GB over 70% internal max usage. If you change the value yourself, you're going to slow down your phone. It doesn't affect the battery but 5%, but it does slow your phone if you use it for an additional 8Gb! If you already have 6+ internal memory, I would turn it off, dont even use it at 2GB in that case! There are only a handful of phones that are over 12GB that aren't pure shit chips! ANYTHING PAST THIS IS JUST RECOMMENDATION... One Plus 9/Nord, Z+, any Galaxy 22+ and higher series, most 2022 5G's, ROG 5 Ultimate, X7 Max (again 5G phones, but not all) and MAYBE the IQ00 9 T/P! There are iPhones and Nokia's, but not really on the scale of Galaxy/Moto/ASUS/ROG quality.. Yes there are others, but these are the basic mass production with high quality 12+ RAM! I mean come on, 90-120fps without breaking a sweat at 4K (and higher)? You won't need more than 12GB for years to come, just as your PC doesn't NEED more that 16, though 32-64GB is nice to brag about and you can be a slacker and keep a dozen high end running in the background (though you really shouldn't), but it's like leaving all of the drivers a few years out of date after awhile!

I have Galaxy S22 Ultra with 8GB Ram and 128GB storage... is better I switch ON ram plus with 4gb more or I don't need?...

velian. im a iphone user but i still love your videos bcs u explain so well. can you do some contents of iphone tips, updates and all?

Now they really allow you to turn it off completely? I was so pissed off when they brought this feature and did not let you disable it which is why i avoided buying a samsung phone.

Bro how can disable ram plus feature in samsung m31 ui4.1 please reply🙏

I turned mine off haven't really paid attention to it

Performanse and battery wise which one is better for samsung a53 6GB ram

I disabled ram plus and I feel less system lagging

if you activate ram+ then the storage space will be slower, so it is equal to zero, I tested it on my s23 ultra!

I doubt virtual ram would run at the same frequency as the actual physical ram the CPU is probably having a bottle neck anf the virtual ram can't run at the same frequency ( you could compair this to having one stick 16gb 3600mhz ram in your computer and adding an 8gb 2666 mhz ram stick in your computer yes you have more ram but now it runs slower this most likely is not the case just the best example I could think of on why the "performance" is not better with virtual ram)

in theory, ram plus will make the SSD run out of writes faster, killing the phone faster...

In cpbt I got way higher score that you Almort triple the score you got in every category .Is this CPBT benchmark works better on exynos version ?

You could test with 8Gb RAM Virtual like in dualchannel

Duh. I used to have that function on old devices but it destroyed the sd card class 10 so I disabled the function.

My 4 gb ram plus only give me around 500 - 800 mb of storage when I turn it off..

You forgot to let the phone cool down after you did it with virtual Ram it runs slower at a higher temperature

8:12 ok hold you breath 🤣🤣🤣🤣

why not RAM Plus 8?

This is really only going to affect the tiny little micro stutters that bother Apple people.

It doesn't work.. Tried it and it makes no difference

When inturned off my ram plus. My phone is much faster and less heat it generates... When my ram plus of 6gb is on.. me phone heats up more and theres a few seconds lag inoticed.

What had i just watched? Rendering video require processor clock speed not RAM, RAM= RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY. WHICH GOOD FOR MULTI TASK WITH MULTIPLE APPS. ps: i leave it off for better battery life thou

Dude you are freaking obsessed with animations and performance. 🤣

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There is no option to disable ram plus on my S20 5G

I could turn it off and on with my S20 Ultra from when it was new.

Yeah, I have this option on my note 20 ultra and I have it turned off.

I think they really fixed the ram plus issue On one UI 5

Does this work on A13 4g LTE?

Totally wrong explanation. Samsung ram plus is using compressing instead of virtual memory tech. This is confirmed by lots of tests.

It's essentially just dram

This was a very confusing way of conveying information.