Virtual Memory - Turn ON or Turn OFF? 

everyone should turn off this ram expansion gimmick, expanded ram only works if you got your ram fully occupied and only works sa mga small system apps like calc etc. and cannot work on big eating ram games, ram expansion is continuously doing read/write on your storage which can cause stress and faster degradation of your internal storage, it also eat battery because ram expansion is continuously active on background.

Useful when multi-tasking. I am using this even before(on a computer) to help me on chrome browsing + another app simultaneously.

Turn on mo if mahilig ka mag multi-tasking para hindi mag restart ang app na inopen mo sa background. Pero pra sa di mahilig mag multi tasking off for better and faster experience.

The topic is very relevant to mobile phone users. Now we have idea for the consequences of activating Extended RAM. Thank you Gadget Sidekick for insightful video!

I don't find virtual RAM to be a full gimmick but it is marketed very wrong. 'Virtual RAM' (or 'swap' as its real name), is indeed real and has been existing ever since Linux was made, people who have been using custom ROMS or knows rooting on phones have known this feature for ages. Linux on desktop uses swap and it's active by default but the thing of why this feature became a mainstream thing just now is because Android (a branch of Linux) never used it in the first place but instead uses 'zRAM' (a small part of the physical RAM where it puts the superactive compressed high priority apps in order for it to run in the background regardless of restriction, like calls, SMS, and even receiving notifications from other apps) iOS uses swap and which is why some iPhones especially the older ones slow down significantly when the internal storage is full, while you see the newer models don't have a lot of physical RAM, an iPhone 15 for example only has 6GB of RAM. For example, an iPhone 6 only has 1 GB of RAM but you can still play ML or some heavier games on it thanks to swap and iOS's really good memory management. It uses swap to borrow some of the memory in the internal storage and temporarily use it as RAM to fit the need of the app and that has been a default setting for iOS, what makes it a bit different is that swap in iOS is dynamically adjusted based on what it needs when using such an app and it just puts it back to the internal storage again after you're done using that heavy app. For Android it is optional but it is sometimes recommended, but swap has been disabled by default back then because it significantly decreases the life of the internal storage especially phones still using EMMC, but for phones using UFS it has better tolerance for the internal storage to last a bit longer and has faster speeds. However iPhones ever since the iPhone 6s is already using NVMe storage which is One of the fastest types of memory out there and that gave very smooth and consistent transitioning of memory allocation when using swap on iOS. NVMe drives are capable of transferring GB/s of data after all which is already the minimum speed of RAM territory compared to UFS or EMMC

6-8gb ram is enough. Mas mag focus dapat yung buyers: cpu clock speed, cpu single-thread performace, gpu clock speed, at storage speed. Kahit isa lang dyan yung mabagal, mag bottle neck talaga yung performance ng device.

Matagal na ang concept ng Extended RAM. Actually sa mga computers meron na extended RAM pero ang tawag ay page file or paging file. Sa page file ini-store ang mga resources from the RAM na hindi currently used to give way sa present or currently used resources. Ganito din ang kaso sa MemFusion or Extended RAM (whatever you call it.) For me, you don't need extended RAM if your memory is already 8GB pataas. Yun nga lang if you want simultaneous apps to be opened, you might need it. Pero kung hindi naman nagfoforce stop or nagiinitialize pabalik sa simula yung app, you don't need it. 8GB is high enough for multitasking. I highly doubt you can use the extra RAM from the ROM. Basic productivity apps hindi naman sobrang laki ng nakakain from the RAM. Gaming apps cannot use the Extended RAM. They only treat the real RAM as the resource they need.

This demonstrates why hardware is more important than software. The software will always be limited by hardware. If an application can process 8K video and your monitor only has a resolution for High Definition, obviously you will never be able to see 8K on that monitor. I went for a default of 12 GB RAM even though it is expandable upto 18GB max because if you have a large memory bank (ROM) like a 256GB or 512GB device, you have to have big RAM. Imagine RAM as little workers on a farmland. You ask them to only pick specific crops that are ready for harvest and leave the rest alone to fully mature. If the farmland is big (256 GB ROM) then do you think 8 workers (8GB RAM) can cover that much space to finish your task? Bigger ROM needs bigger RAM to make work faster. What you should try investing on is proper cooling when you want to heavy game/ phone editing/ videography whole day. Less heat dissapated equals more power for the system to use. Power loss comes in the form of heat. Kapag mainit ang cellphone mo, ang cellphone mo humuhugot ng extra power para ma "offset" yung nawalang power na nag transform into heat energy na naramdaman ng kamay mo.

The concept of Virtual RAM for phones is the same sa computers. It's obvious na magda-drop ang performance niyan kasi the ROM is much slower than the RAM. Sa computers, the HDD/SSD is much slower than the RAM. So the fact na yung swap file (for phones) or page file (for computers) is naka-store sa ROM (for phones) or SSD/HDD (for computers), siyempre babagal talaga ang performance. Much better kung disable na lang yan since RAM is much faster than the ROM, kahit pa UFS file system pa yan.

Fan mo na ko dati pa sa pagrereview since 2019 kuya Richmond noong nagcocollab pa kayo ni Unbox Diaries or kuya Vince. pero for me kase pag yung ram ng cp mo is 8 gb no need to use the MemFusion kase sobra na yon for multitasking. Merry Chrismas🥳 and Happy New Year

Honest review sobrang lag ng phone ko after ko i turn on yung virtual ram siguro mga 1 year na rin akong nag suffer sa sobrang lag ng phone ko kasi nga 4gb ram lang sya +4gb kahit saang laro lag sya laging may frame drop pero after i saw this kanina mga 2 hours ago i did turn off the virtual ram sobrang saya ko kasi kahit saang game smooth even sa ml naka max graphics and frames ako smooth pa rin kahit sa roblox I can't even play dress to impress with my girlfriend now sobrang smooth na nya rin and I can't believe it, i also try my pj sekai and nawala na yung lag nya sa lobby sa home even sa game sobrang unbelievable pa rin talaga. nasasa inyo na yan if gagana ba or hindi pero base on my experience sobrang help nya sakin nung tinurn off ko sya

Using Nokia C12, kapag naka on ang virtual RAM, humihinto ang app tulad ng youtube at COC dahil palipat-lipat sa RAM at storage. Hindi swabe, nakakainis lang kaya sinara ko ang virtual RAM at swabe uli ang takbo.

It only makes phone storage smaller, and the processing speed is actually slowed down. So turning this off is a must, simce it only makes the phone lagier and more strained

so in short, mas ok pa pala mag Turn Off

Para saking naka 512gb rom. Inopen ko nalang yung 8gb vram ng 13t pro ko. Di naman mashado masakit sa storage. Saka goods rin sa multi tasking. Saka pagidle ng apps. Gusto ko rin imaximize mga features. Kasama yan sa binayaran mo hehe

Ito magandang topic to sir mond makikinig lang ako😊😬👌👍

To give you an idea, ginawa nila yang ram expansion na yan dahil nauso yung ROOTING. Para hindi mavoid ang warranty ng phone.ang nagbebenefit totally yung mga mahilig mag games Lalo sa low-end phones USO to,to boost GPU performance. Pero kain battery kahit pa 5kmah yan.😂

for short if you are a gamer then disable it but if you are multitasker or you use ram heavy apps then enable it

wow! na mention na rin performance of other apps like capcut, di lang puro gaming. tnx sir

kung ang storage mo ay eMMC always turn it off walang benefit babagal lang ang phone, kung UFS... medyo?? tingnan ninyo na lang sa day to day operation ng phone

Yun very nice review Sir Rich,, and it's very important to know and guide as well sa mga meron ram extension ang kanilang phone❤💯😊

Hi Sir nice to meet you po in our store sa Glorietta you ordered signature fruit tea 😊

like sa computer RAM Stick pag pinag halo mo ang 1833hz 8gb and 3200 hz 8gb yung pinaka mabagal ang susundin pero magiging 16gb 1833 hz RAM x ROM kasi to

May purpose rin ang MemFusion, nung una akala mo na useless sya pero para yan sa mga background apps na nsa cached lng..may mga apps kse na nagrereload ulit khit hindi naman niclose tpos bumabgal gradually pg hindi mo nirestart ang phone. Sakin kse inenable ko na lng pra hirap mgreload ng app at malessen ung dalas ng restart ng phone.

Maganda lang ang virtual ram kung may issue ka na biglang nagcoclose mga apps mo. Pangit lang ng virtual ram kasi nakakadagdag yan sa wear ng internal memory o rom dahil mapupunta ang ibang tasks sa rom. Ang rom ay parang papel at ang files ay parang lapis, the more na magsulat ka at magbura, the more na masisira ang papel.

kala ko gimik lang yang memfusion nakakatulong din pala sya. gumagamit kasi ako ng virtual apps para gumana yung game guardian kasi nagchecheat ako sa ml. nung inoff ko lag na yung ml k na nasa virtual app. tapos binalik k yung 4gb na memfusion ok na uli d na sya lag.

Beautifully tutorial & review video, VRam is a sham & a Gimmick, OEMs just need to have variable hardware specs when selling phones, like Oppo A series where A9x has more Ram & Memory than A3x or A1x Also, please also do a video on refresh rates, I feel like 90Hz vs 120Hz is negligible

Kuya Richmond, request din po sana ako video about sa warranty ng isang unit kung ano ang sakop at hindi sakop nito kapag nagka problema.. salamat po

Gimik lang talaga kaya sa stock default nalang tayo for safety.Buy big ram big storage & disregard virtual ram advertise ...😁

If I remember it correctly sabi ng prof ko before mas advisable na wag ng gamitin yung V-RAM since it uses the internal storage? yea, and since it is made out of slower components unlike the RAM itself di rin effective and pwede pang bumagal yung system(correct me if I'm wrong po) ganun din sa mga Desktop and laptops mas okay na mag upgrade na lang.

Pang multi tasking lang naman yung mem fusion tulad ng pag open ng maraming apps, para hindi husle ang pag lag spike or choppy ng device. Bagay sa mga mostly na nanay na hindi palaging kino close ang mga apps pag nag leave 😅.

Thank you po! D nmn ako malakas mag multi task so I guess it's rlly better to turn it off for me.

Prolly the only use ng VRAM is if may game kang gagamit ng almost your entire physical RAM, and you need to turn keep other minor apps ON like messenger/teams, or other add-on apps para hindi mag crash yung nilalaro mo. Pero bihira naman yung ganung sitwasyon.

Hula ko bumaba ang score nya sa memory kasi physically significantly mas mabilis magprocess ng data and ram kaysa rom. Tsaka siguro umangat ang gpu performance kasi di na kinusidera ng test ang speed ng added ram basta lang lumaki and quantity nya.

Ty sa Vid Boss napaka Informative!

thank you sir. .kahit papano may gumawa na din about sa memory fusion. .salamat sir. .detalyado naman. .

bro speaking Indonesian and English at same time bravo 👏

Base on my experience, mem fusion or virtual ram or what you call it is just a gimmick. Minsan mas nag sstruggle pa nga siya kapag naka on lalo na sa gaming. Lalo na kapag long gaming ka. Depends din sa type ng Storage between EMMC and UFS. And kapag naka on mas mabilis ma drain ang battery compare sa naka off. If you need more Ram i suggest go for higher Ram and don't depend on Mem fusion.

They're generally isn't any problem when you multitask with 8 gigs of ram or 6gb if you lightly multitask. Virtual mem can only be used for phones with 4 gigs or less but anything above that is fine.

Note 30 4g. Mas hindi frame drops sa ml pag naka on memfusion, mas mataas pa lahat antutu pag naka on.

It works well on my Xiaomi I can clearly see and feel the difference

Turned off memfusion ko. Masyadong malaki nakukuha sa storage pero ambaba naman ng effect pansin ko mas mainit phone ko pag naka extended ram. Gimik lang ni Tecno yan para mag mukhang mas mabilis ang phone😂

I honestly turn it off, as I use an IQOO Z7 with 12gb of ram. Its more than enough and a huge increase from my last phone which is a realme 3 4/64. I don't multitask that heavily but knowing I have 12gb of ram reduces one struggle I had with my last phone.

If you have 12 GB of RAM better turn off virtual ram expansion. No app can reach up to 12GB.

For short nagagamit lang ang extra ram, kapag sagad na sa gamit ang main ram

turn off pansin ko rin kasi na mas mabilis maka drain okay naman sya pag naka on yung prob lang is grabe maka consime ng batt for me.

Memfusion virtual ram gagana lng yan pag naubos na ung 8gb ram pero hindi sa mga heavy tash tulad ng ml cod NBA pwd siguro sa calculator

For me na naka 6gb ram lang i add 2gb virtual ram kase always ako nag mumulti task, pero if ang phone nyo ay nasa 8gb ram na dont use virtual ram kase sapat na sapat ang 8gb para makapag run ka ng upto 10 apps ng sabay sabay and hindi monaman lagi gagawin yun diba? so no need to turn it on kapag naka 8gb kana pero sakin na 6gb kaya ko inoon yung 2gb virtual ram.

Sa infinix note 30 vip po mas maganda po ba naka off or on memory expansion?

Ok padin khit pysical ram lang or nka fusion parehas lang nmn din performance .

yung ram kase pang multi tasking kumbaga pag nag keep ka ng isang app hindi siya mag rereset pag may sapat kang ram

Swap partition lang naman yan, sa Linux antagal na nyan, saka ginagawa na din yan noon pa sa android, yun ngalang need I root, pero di sya goods kasi nakakaikli ng lifespan ng mmc, palagi kasi yung mag reread and write, ngayon ginawang feature na sya ng mga android phones🤔

Para saan ba yung RAM? At paano malalaman kung puno na yung RAM?

I have two android phones a Samsung and a Redmi phone and on Samsung it lags the phone when gaming while on Redmi it boost games zero lag I tried in on codm.

Well di naman talaga need ng vram kung may 8 gb ka na or overall, dehins na talaga need ng vram since for me, more on gimmick lang to like the extra camera na macro na 2 mp lang na unusable. Phones natin walang problema na mag run sa 8gb na hardware ram. So if we want to get more ram, get a phone na may hardware ram ba medyo may kamahalan since legit yung paggamit ng ram sa mga phones na yun.

Turn off if your Android device doesn't have any performance issues.

U know VRAM means video ram not virtual ram

Worth it naman talaga ang MEMFUSION he hindi gimik, na experience ko yan, sa NBA2K20 pag naka off ang MEMFUSION ko ma lag ang NBA2K20 ko, pero pag naka on smoothly cya, 4gb ram 64rom ang smartphone kopo MEMFUSION worth it yan, chismis lang iyon na gemik lang 🙂👍

Sa Tecno Camon 20 pro 5g which is better po turn on or off yung memory expansion?

Use the virtual ram when ur ram runs out,and turn it off when you have enough space for your ram bcoz it causes heating issues,Kapag mainit yung cp mo nagcacause ng frame drops when playing.I swear Kasi subok ko na to.Note (Use virtual ram wisely and ocassionally👌

Waiting for your review regarding sa HyperOS nila boss. And if magkareview ka po sana e masagot ang tanong ko if applicable po yung new OS update sa midrange devices nila like redmi note 12 series. Thank you boss

Bababa talaga memory score sa benchmark kasi di nagdagan ng mabagal na virtual ram ang phone.

Sa yuzu emulator need tlga ng vram kpag 8gb at pababa yun physical ram, para di magcrash yun yuzu frontend o kaya yun system

On my 8GB RAM primary phone, naka off virtual ram ko kasi ok na sa multitasking yon. Pero sa secondary phone ko na 4GB RAM, naka on kasi nakakatulong naman sa mga low ram phones sa multitasking but not on GAMING.

Lods, usapang laptop naman Sana?? I want my laptop to be as clean as new from the box pag ginamit ko.. Which is better pay mag factory reset: CLOUD REINSTALL or LOCAL REINSTALL?? NOTE: Mas OK sakin MABURA LAHAT NG Downloaded Apps / created FILES NA GINAWA KO kapag I-factory reset ko Para parang brand new parin ang feeling pag gagamitin ko ulit.

Kakatapos lang mag live ni hardware voyage pa giveaway.... Hintay naman ako sa inyu hehehe

It creates a swap file, that's it. Not helpful for performance but multitasking.

I disagree na nakakatulong yan sa gaming, gimmick lang yan, pag nakaon yan dagdag process lang yan sa cpu ng phone mo, meaning dagdag trabaho pa yan sa cpu mo, hindi kayang habulin ng ROM ang speed ng RAM. Just gimmick

Makakatulog naman sana pero nakaka drain ng battery di na nakakaabot ng isang araw na gamit.

Daming nabiktima siguro nito. akala nila, Kungwari 8GB nakalagay. yun pala 4+4 lang 😂

Mas better na tawag jan imaginary memory kasi in reality parang wala naman nagagawang tulong yan for marketing strategy lang ng mga China brand phone😂

Yung virtual memory kung on o off? Depende.

Kaya pala mas mabilis mag bootup pag naka off memfusion, pag naka memfusion ako napaka bagal mag bootup kala ko tuloy na deadboot phone ko😂

Even other phone reviewers like Qotman say its a gimmick and you should turn it off thanks for showing how this expanded Ram doesnt really help with the performance

Kung hindi yan, ufs 4.0 or any latest ufs one. Walang sense virtual memory.

d na kailangan i on yan may virtual ram ka parin kahit naka off

kung tumaas gpu perf, maganda na i-on while gaming

good pag naka off na alis nya ang init ng cp ko nung naka on ang ram plus palagi na init ang cp ko

sa oppo sa useful yan kasi naka optimized talaga

not really related sa video pero ask ko lang bakit nag re refresh yung ML ko sa background kahit i exit nang madalian bumabalik? Naka on naman standard limit background, hindi naka battery saver yung app at system? Poco x5 pro device

Nowadays when I'm getting any 2022 or newer smartphones..if that phone got this ram swap function I've always turn it off immediately.. always remindful of myself to get smartphones that got minimum 8gb of ram or more tho..if i wanted to set off the feature..

Sir Richmond yung bagong Honor x8b naman po please.. Sobrang ganda nun .. 🥹🥹

Nice content bro, informative as always 👌👌👌

Sa totoo lang ioff nalang yan dekada na yang virtual ram na yan bakit dinagdag pa ng android dati oo kasi maliliit pa ram nuon kung di ako nagkakamali donut era pa

Mukhang mas bagay ang MemFusion sa Emulator

Kahit may extended RAM, nag cclose parin yung background apps. Poor lang talaga ang RAM management sa Android that's why may mga gimmick na ganito 🤷. I have the s21 ultra with 12gigs of RAM and naka on ang RAM plus 4GB so total is 16 gig RAM. Makes no difference 🤷 5 apps opened and nagcclose na yung iba sa background. Wala ding way para malaman if nagagamit ba talaga yung extended RAM like hindi naman siya nagpapakita sa RAM and Storage widgets. I also have my iPhone 14PM and kung anong app ang inopen ko ng umaga, hanggang sa matulog ako ng gabi hindi siya nagrereload throughout the day unlike yung Samsung ko.

Para skn useless, una +8gb so dpat mas mabilis boot plang mas bumilis na dapat yan, pngalawa tumaas ang gpu pero bumaba ang cpu means hnd rin tlga msusuportahan ng ayos ng cpu ang gpu bka mag lag lang yan sa mga games specially sa mga bigating games like pgr, genshin, pubg at cod mobile + hnd rin naman pinakita ang game test sa video, so total nyan propaganda lang ng phone yang +memory ram na yan gaya ng nasabi sa video virtual hnd built-in hnd physical memory. Nice video po naipakita ng video na ito kung ok ba ang +memory or hnd

Redmi A2 plus 3/64 gb lang akin pero may extension ram ako na 3Gb..mas smooth kung naka off kesa naka on.

Yang feature na yan babawasan lang life span ng mga storage mo lalo na sa mga mobile storage na if more data is written to a cell, it wears out faster kase write yan ng write kahit may trim feature pa yan mababawasan yang life ng storage mo tapos may builtin pang zram bawat android devices so if may swap pang enabled di lang life pati speed ababwasan ang mas mabuti pa ay iextend na lang ung tintwag na zram which also helps multitasking instead implementing yang swap na taxing sa mobile units di na nga narereplace mga storage nyan basta kase nakasolder mga yan halatang dinedegrade lang nila mga devices kase mga storage na nyan tatagal lang mga halos 4 to 5 years

boss rich eto pinaka maganda mong gupit...😊

Thank you po sir

bakit sa reboot?. Sa multi-tasking po yan

from the word itself guys "VIRTUAL" RAM

it helps kung bubuksan mo build prop

Okay lang po ba eh off yung virtual ram ng samsung galaxy a05s?? Sa messenger lang naman ako babad lagi😂

i have 5.5gb ram(they dont give full 6gb and i get it) 3gb taken by system, 2.5gb left, genshin takes 2.2 gb ram, i use discord to communicate which takes 300mb ram, i literally have left out with 0mb ram, would ram extender help me out or not. someone help me out

Ano po ung smartwatch na gamit nio jan sir?

Kahit may 2gb virtual ram ako never ko yang ginagamit kasi alam kong gimmick lang yan 😂

What's the watch name

Independence on what owners uses