Actually developed back in the 1950s, virtual memory uses storage (HDD/SSD) to temporarily hold parts of the program that are in RAM. Because there is always more storage space than RAM space ...

Virtual memory, also known as a Page file, adds to the physical RAM by using disk space. However, moving the page file to a secondary SSD can help free up space if you run out of space on the primary.

While you're still OK for now, when you buy your next graphics card make sure it's got more than 8GB VRAM (Video RAM) is to your GPU as RAM is to your CPU. It's lightning-fast memory that holds ...

As we expected, this smaller amount of RAM means swap space is required with far fewer apps, and only a handful can be held in memory at once. The OnePlus 9 Pro used for testing has 8GB of RAM and ...