14 DAY TRIAL // The company’s new A10 “Trinity” APUs will come with a new and interesting RAM drive technology. This is the first time a processor manufacturer has officially supported such an implementation.
Fabless CPU and GPU designer, Texas-based AMD has partnered with Patriot Memory to start making and selling AMD-branded and optimized memory modules.
The modules are already present on the market and, while they’re not the best-selling modules available, they do provide AMD customers with a certified and optimized DRAM option that also comes with support for automatic overclocking through specific AMD settings support.
Now the company will bundle a special utility with its APUs that will allow the user to create a RAM partition with a capacity of up to 64 GB.
The user can copy its game directory onto this partition or any other program that he uses frequently and will benefit greatly from the faster data transfer.
This way, any type of disk file handling such as game load time, game level time or large file professing will be greatly accelerated with performance increases that will reach and surpass the 500% mark.
RAM drives have existed for quite some time now and the software needed to implement them has been available for years, but this is the first time AMD or any CPU maker has supported such an implementation.
AMD’s official support will ensure stability and reliability as well as prolonged life span of your SSD or your hard drive.
As the durability of SSDs is probably the main issue of this market sector, using AMD’s RAMDisk could really make a difference by increasing the performance level significantly beyond what the SSD was able to deliver as well as reducing the wear on the NAND flash inside it.
