SDRAM as a laptop spec?

[chivs688]

Currently looking at 2 laptops, and just noticed something on the RAM specs.

One says "8GB 2 DIMM (2x4GB) DDR3L 1600Mhz".

The other "8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3L SDRAM (1 x 8 GB)"

It was the 'SDRAM' that caught my eye, and did a quick search on it, and was hard to find a good answer and way to compare them. And actually a few sites referred to it as old and half the speed of other types of RAM.

Is there anything in this? Is it simply because of it just being 1 stick of RAM? Or is there actually a difference between the two?

Thanks.

 

[Zinnkio]

RDRAM > SDRAM > DRAM

From what I can tell both are exactly the same other than one laptop has two sticks making up 8GB and the other only has one

 

[chivs688]

Ah okay, thanks

 

[pandem0nium]

4 x 2 would be better if the laptop's mb supports dual channel.