AMD 9000 Series Single Channel Vs Dual Channel Memory – 5 Games Benchmarked
If you’ve tried to buy RAM lately, you know the pain. Thanks to the huge increase in AI data centres, memory prices have absolutely skyrocketed, leaving gamers watching their build budgets frankly evaporate. It’s getting to the point where we’re having to get creative to get our systems online without selling a kidney, and this got us thinking about compromises.
We’ve always been told that dual-channel memory is mandatory for gaming performance, but does that rule still hold up in 2025 with DDR5, especially on the AM5 platform? If you manage to snag a deal on a single high-capacity stick, or just want to buy one now to save cash and add another later, are you actually ruining your frame rates?
To find out, we took a single 32GB stick of 6000MHz CL40 DDR5 and pitted it directly against a dual-channel kit of two 16GB sticks running at the exact same speeds. We wanted to see if the point still stands in terms of dual-channel memory, or if you can get away with single-channel memory to weather this pricing storm.
