Be aware that DEM files EAT memory! (and I don't mean on SD card but workspace for the program)
A DEM shows mountains, lakes, etc. It's eye candy, so consider is it that important that the mountain ahead or beside you looks exactly as in reality? Thus the smallest file of the 2 could do.
One or two files? Why should you have 2 DEMs? There is only one world.
And I really don't know if iGO8/Primo only uses the latest one (like it does with maps). In the old days I come from, devices didn't have the memory to store a large DEM, then how test 2 DEM? Now I don't care