In its latest beta build, Windows 11 includes a very small change to its task manager. The Performance tab no longer displays RAM speed in MHz, but in MT/s. We explain to you what this changes.
If you are concerned about maintaining ideal performance on your Windows PC, you have probably already visited the tab Performance from your task manager. This allows you to have an overall overview of the use of your processor, graphics card, but also your RAM. However, for several years, the space dedicated to the latter has lacked precision.
Microsoft has understood this well. This is why the latest build for Windows 11 Insiders includes a small change that makes all the difference. From now on, the RAM speed is no longer displayed in MHz, but in MT/s. It doesn’t seem like much, and yet this little new feature allows you to have a much more precise overview of RAM usage.
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Windows 11 will display the RAM speed in MT/s and that changes everything
To fully understand why this change in nomenclature is important, we need to go back a few years. Back then, RAM was usually in SDR format, or single data rate. To do so, 1 MHZ then corresponded to 1 million cycles per second. Otherwise, the amount of data transferred was equivalent to the RAM clock frequency.
But things changed with the arrival of DDR RAM (double data rate). As its name suggests, this format allows twice as much data transfer over the same duration as SDR. Concretely, with a speed of 1 MHz, DDR RAM transfers 2 MT/s. Also, the clock frequency no longer corresponds to the amount of data transferred.
By displaying the RAM speed in MT/s (megatransfers per second), Windows 11 therefore chooses to display the real speed. It’s about time for this change to arrive, as DDR RAM is now widely available in our PCs. Note that this new build of Windows also brings the possibility of duplicating a tab in File Explorer.