- Apr 15, 2010
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I have a cheap little laptop with an AMD A10-4600M APU in it. It's a surprisingly decent little gamer, although that isn't primarily what I bought it for (I do occasionally game with it when I'm on the road though).
I'm bothered by the fact that this laptop has mixed memory modules - it has a 2GB stick and a 4GB stick. Does anyone know if I'd see any measurable difference in gaming performance if I got two matching sticks of 4GB RAM? My guess is that my memory is currently running in single channel mode because I don't have a matching pair. I've read that these APUs will use almost as much memory bandwidth as you can throw at them, so I'm considering an upgrade. I can't find any benchmarks done with unmatched RAM though.
I'm bothered by the fact that this laptop has mixed memory modules - it has a 2GB stick and a 4GB stick. Does anyone know if I'd see any measurable difference in gaming performance if I got two matching sticks of 4GB RAM? My guess is that my memory is currently running in single channel mode because I don't have a matching pair. I've read that these APUs will use almost as much memory bandwidth as you can throw at them, so I'm considering an upgrade. I can't find any benchmarks done with unmatched RAM though.
