RAM Plus - On or Off?

[the-nar-1865]

Hey 👋

I just came across the RAM Plus setting in Device Care, it was already switched on. There seems to be split views on if it should be turned on or not...

Do any of you have any experience with it? Do you have it switched on?

From my understanding, the 12GB RAM that comes with the S24 Ultra should be more than enough.

[BandOfBrothers]

It's a personal decision @the-nar-1865 

I have this option turned Off. 

[Reylob]

Hi @the-nar-1865 

12GB should be enough. There could be an occasion where the phone  might need more. e.g. multitasking or very memory demanding apps, games.

Device care shows how much memory the phone is using, you could take that into account. However, as other have mentioned, If I were you, I would turn it off. Mine is off. You could always turn it back on if the need arises.

RAM plus, swap partitions use storage as "RAM" which is good on systems where memory is small. The price to pay is performance. It "frees" some memory by writing its content to the storage RAM and retrieving when needed.

Storage on the phone is very fast, but it is not faster than RAM. Reading and writing to storage is usually the bottleneck in computing.

[the-nar-1865]

Thats great thank you, I appreciate the explanation. Have you noticed any performance increase or battery improvements with it off?

[Reylob]

My phone is very fast and its battery life has improved considerably. I have mentioned about battery performance on a few posts and have posted screenshots. Like this one

https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/galaxy-s24-series/s24-ultra-battery-performance/m-p/9524405#M213...

I was struggle to get 1 day, but now device care estimates over 4 days. Please note that battery life depends on a range of variables. I could not attribute the battery improvement to disabling RAM Plus only, but it should help.

[the-nar-1865]

Okay that's good to know, thank you! I'll take a look at that post as well. Battery life has been incredible but I appreciate it all comes down to what apps are being used etc.

[Joeeye]

I've always disabled it since the benefits were rarely noticeable in previous devices. It also added more moments of lag during normal UI operation. However, since the S24 Ultra, I've found that apps and games would frequently close unexpectedly without it enabled. So for the S24 series, I'd say keep it enabled if you encounter random app or game crashes.

[the-nar-1865]

I'll bear that in mind thank you, the only thing I've noticed so far today is a bit of lag when streaming on Amazon Prime, but could have been more of a network issue

[davehorne]

I had to look at my Settings to see what I had.  I'm at 8GB in RAM Plus.  

We already have 12 GB of RAM to begin with and since I periodically close all programs down (except for two that are locked and remain open), I don't know if there's a difference either way.

I suppose there might be a measurable difference if we had dozens upon dozens of apps open, but I'm not going to take the time to test this.  

[the-nar-1865]

Thank you, I appreciate the reply!

[reachforbeejal]

I've been using RAM+ with 6 GB allotted, on my Galaxy S10e (version with 6 GB RAM, 128 GB storage) for the last 3.5 years.  While I never ran a benchmark test, it was helpful in my case (only 6 GB RAM) to smooth out performance, vs. without when I noticed some hiccups in performance.  I often have numerous, numerous apps open (from social media to banking to messaging to investment research to healthcare to dining/shopping) along with 20-40 tabs open in my browser at any time. 

I think if I'd gotten the 8 GB RAM / 256 GB storage model of the S10e, maybe I'd not have needed RAM+ due to the extra 2 GB of RAM.  That said, on the 6 GB model it's been really impressive.  Even after 3.5 years with my S10e, it isn't missing a beat in terms of operation.  I'm used to my phones being really BLEH in terms of speed & smoothness of operation after 2 to 2.5 years and have to move on.  Just the battery life of my S10e is becoming a bummer, may consider a replacement battery but S25 and other models are coming soon and I may hold out for them.