And that slide is so full of BS. They also forgot to test against an SSD. It would yield about the same results as a RAMDisk due to the compression and package techniques used in games and apps. You are CPU limited way before storage speed limited. And will be so as long as HDs are around.
you CAN'T be serious??? about bolded part? HDD is, like, bottleneck for last 20 years...
now, i was there those 20+ (oh, hell, 25+) years - and know exactly what ram disk is - so no need for clarification for me
still, i was kinda intrigued when saw AMD utilizing ram disks, and even more when own SSD line is announced.
it *could* turn to be total BS (as you stated), but undeniable fact is that current windows memory usage/caching can withstand loads of improvements
for instance:
1) say, it's wise to use multiple drives for pagefile. as the matter of fact, i use this setup. when the paging occur, what drive is used? it *should* be the one which is idling at this exact moment, as using system or application needing paging is actually worsening things. is it so? i mean, does windows take care about this? i have no definitive answer - if you do, i'll admit my mistake immediatelly
2) cache - very nice - until it conflicts with available memory or pagefile. also, it could slow down memory intensive procesess
3) files being cached - a everlasting question, i would much prefer to be able to select (or at least remove) files that should/shouldn't be cached, like, ever - but i'm sure lots of cache is occupied exactly with this kind of crap
4) system boot - a load of files is read from disk(s) - in "s" lives the devil - if the process could be divided to utilize more than one hdd, or ssd/ramdisk it sure can be faster
and the ssd/ramdisk (grouped together as secondary, faster storage) does NOT contain what you need, they contain what you put/installed on them - conflicts can and do happen
whole amd ramdisk/ssd *could* improve things with memory/pagefile/cache management, a chronic windows problem, IF executed right
now, i'm not advocating that it will happen, it may be just a cheap marketing trick, but there is chance of hope that it can be executed rightly, and lead to noticeable improvements in responsiveness
of course, it should have been done by microsoft so many years ago, but what to say about company that needs 20 years to fix "file copy" glitch? no 3rd party software can do it as well as MS could, but i think all will agree that cache/pagefile management is currently crap
ramdisk has a number of disadvantages - like, i want to play diablo3, but DON'T need (or even want) to have game install it on ramdrive - i just want to have extracted mpq to ramdisk (happens all the time, and uses lot less space than whole game) - i doubt this software makes that possible. but it would be so COOL if it would.
finally, i'm not advocating anyone to buy amd memory or use ramdisk - do it on your own will, but i DO claim that, if executed right, whole ssd/ramdisk system, paired with software, COULD make a difference. not decisive one, but noticeable
as for current ramdisks and their state - they are just that, a 25+ year old idea, from the time when floppy disk had to be made faster...