This post will share with you about single channel vs dual channel ram performance, which is best and sure clear your doubt about single vs dual slot.
In case if you plan to build a PC, you always doubt that whether you put 16 GB of ram in 1 slot it to put 2x of 8 GB in RAM SLOTS.
This post will share about single-channel performance and dual-channel performance of the ram and clear your doubts on this topic.
Is dual-channel faster than single-channel?
Or both are the same?
| 2X 8GB OR 1X 16GB |
WHAT IS A RAM?
First entering into this topic, we need to be clear about 32-bit and 64-bit processors and how those two differ from their work.
First, for every work on the computer, we need to give any instruction and we can't instruct the computer to do some work like open "photoshop.exe" and that can't be done directly with the processor you need a storage device to process and store that information for some few minutes and that needs to be very fast. But hard disk is very slow as we all know that, that's where RAM comes into play.
With RAM we can access any file randomly that's why we use RAM.
By how we give that instruction to the computer is important, there is single channel and dual channels of ram come into the show.
SINGLE CHANNEL VS DUAL CHANNEL
The difference between these RAM was a single channel have only one communication bridge but if we have two RAMS in the slot then we have two communication bridges so that dual-channel will be more reliable than a single channel and we can access multiple data in a single time.
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| SINGLE BRIDGE VS DUAL BRIDGE |
This is the only difference between single-channel and dual-channel.
And now let's see whether the dual-channel give you more performance boost in this modern world.
SYNTHETIC PERFORMANCE
When I tested the 8x GB dual-channel vs single channel, let's see which is best and this is what I got,
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| Synthetic performance |
This is a synthetic performance score, according to cinebench R15 dual-core gave better performance and all this was just won or defeated with 5 or 6 points. But we can only consider experience if it gives more than 50 or 100 points. So according to synthetic performance, there is no
difference between single-channel dual-channel
REAL-TIME PERFORMANCE
Now let's check the real-time performance score, real-time means:
For productivity checks, we use a "BLENDER" and "PREMIERE PRO"
And for gaming, let's use "GTA 5" and "CYBERPUNK 2077"
GTA 5:
First, let's see GTA 5 performance:
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| GTA 5 REVIEW |
Single-channel if 16 GB gave 153 FPS and dual-channel gave 167FPS, you can think that this doesn't give a big difference but 24 FPS can make a big change in your game.
CYBERPUNK:
Now let's see cyberpunk performance:
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| CYBERPUNK REVIEW |
Cyberpunk gave us 48FPS in single-channel and dual-channel gave 51 FPS so you can think that it performed up to 150 FPS but why it reduced to half in cyberpunk because GTA 5 is a well-optimized game and cyberpunk isn't.
PRODUCTIVITY:
When I rendered my video in adobe premiere pro 16 GB of ram it rendered in 4 MINUTES AND 42 SECONDS and when in 8 GB it was rendered in 3 MINUTES AND 56 SECONDS. It gave a difference for about 46 seconds.
This is a very big difference in productivity and proved dual channel is best in editing.
BLENDER:
While rendering a BMW car sample in blender
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| BLENDER REVIEW |
When rendering this in CPU dual took 4:20 minutes and single-channel took 4:22 minutes.
And same to GPU there is a difference of only about 2 seconds.
CONCLUSION:
So coming to the end:
We have seen many reviews and testing,
So if you need to do video editing GO FOR DUAL CHANNEL, Because that gave us 44 seconds of difference.
Also for gaming prefer a dual-channel that gave 10 FPS more than a single.
Now we concluded and we hope that you cleared all your doubts about the single channel and dual channel, last of my opinion was choose always dual channel I mean two RAMS in the slot, or other if want to upgrade it in future use single slot for now then change in future. Or not preferring dual is best because it gives the best performance boost.
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