I've run into this with Horizon Zero Dawn when it first launched on PC, Escape from Tarkov, and more recently Grey Zone ...

System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designers have a problem, a big problem in fact, Random Access Memory (RAM) is slow, too slow, it just can’t keep up. So they came up with a workaround and it is called cache ...

When talking about CPU specifications, in addition to clock speed and number of cores/threads, ' CPU cache memory ' is sometimes mentioned. Developer Gabriel G. Cunha explains what this CPU cache ...

I have a database VM running on RHEL 6. It's configured for a large amount of RAM: 160 GB. However, 99% of the time, well over 120 GB is listed under "cached" (as viewed with "free -g"). I was always ...

Super Talent announced a new USB 3.0 Express RAM Cache drive. According to the company, the new drive will boost small block random performance by up to 110x over USB 2.0 speeds. The drive will come ...

One of the greatest challenges facing the designers of many-core processors is resource contention. The chart below visually lays out the problem of resource contention, but for most of us the idea is ...

Random access memory is a crucial component of every computer's operation, but it's not always easy to tell when your RAM is ...

Welcome to ExtremeTech's comprehensive RAM guide, in which we'll answer a broad range of questions related to how much system RAM you need these days, whether or not it's worth it to upgrade older ...