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I checked and the Dell8910 has one 16gb RAM card installed and another 3 slots up to a maximum of 64gb, so should be ok for that.
RAM running in single channel mode? [sucks teeth and shakes head]
In truth it may well be one of those things that you need to benchmark in order to tell the difference. Wouldn't be surprised if things like photo/video editing and 3d stuff were the sort of applications which benefit from dual channel operation tho'.
Does seem a strange way to spec a new machine. Makes me wonder if it's simply because 1x16GB module is a bit cheaper than 2x8.
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I checked and the Dell8910 has one 16gb RAM card installed and another 3 slots up to a maximum of 64gb, so should be ok for that.
If just paying an extra £500 for the 1080 I might hang off and see how the 1070 performs in real life usage-most comparisons I've seen are quoting a c.16% difference in favour of the 1080 for rendering which doesn't sound life or death. I think Unity and Autodesk cloud services will also take the strain off anything genuinely meaty.
I've just been using Photoscan as I got a free license through my old Uni that's never expired-it's actually one of the few programs that has run ok on my Mac 2011 powerbook