does ram affect fps

[alim]

i have 8 gb of ram and i am looking to upgrade to 16 gb will it affect the fps enough to justify the purchase?

[Sovietball]

99% of the time no. Very very select games need more than 8

[alim]

İlk olarak Keybirb tarafından gönderildi:

99% of the time no. Very very select games need more than 8

such as?

[dabayb]

None of the games you have

[Andrius227]

Ram does affect fps, but only negatively, if you run out of ram.
And yes 8gb is a bit low and might cause fps drops in some games. 16GB is recommended.

[tacoshy]

not the capacity of RAM (like 8GB or 16GB) have an effect on fps at all. Only the frequency does depending on the CPU. The difference between DDR4-2133 to DDR4-3000 is mostly less then 5 fps with Intel and with Ryzen its much higher.

If you run out of RAM you dont get less fps stuff just needs longer to load.

[Sovietball]

İlk olarak NickiMirage tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Keybirb tarafından gönderildi:

99% of the time no. Very very select games need more than 8

such as?

None of the games you play.

[tacoshy]

İlk olarak Keybirb tarafından gönderildi:

99% of the time no. Very very select games need more than 8

there is not a single game on that market that need more then 8GB RAM. there few recent AAA titles that would profit from it with fast texture loading and overall performance like no tearing or shuttering when having more then 8GB but they do not require it at all.

[Omega]

İlk olarak NickiMirage tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Keybirb tarafından gönderildi:

99% of the time no. Very very select games need more than 8

such as?

Just Cause 3, uses up to 11gb. Mass Effect Andromeda, uses 10gb+.

[Hello Kitty]

İlk olarak Omega tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak NickiMirage tarafından gönderildi:

such as?

Just Cause 3, uses up to 11gb. Mass Effect Andromeda, uses 10gb+.

yeah right but they would run with 8GB too. Mass Effect Andromeda uses the RAM to pre-load the next map so you have no loading time when jumping to the enxt map. If you run out of RAM or have a very slow drive you have a bit loading time of 10-15 seconds.

[Omega]

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İlk olarak Omega tarafından gönderildi:

Just Cause 3, uses up to 11gb. Mass Effect Andromeda, uses 10gb+.

yeah right but they would run with 8GB too. Mass Effect Andromeda uses the RAM to pre-load the next map so you have no loading time when jumping to the enxt map. If you run out of RAM or have a very slow drive you have a bit loading time of 10-15 seconds.

Of cource they run fine on 8gb. You can even run them with 4gb (including lag and stutter) if you want.

[ecznos]

İlk olarak tacoshy tarafından gönderildi:

there is not a single game on that market that need more then 8GB RAM.

Play them on 2 or 4K resolution at the highest settings and we will talk about this again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyUyY6qI1-Q

[upcoast]

More ram might have an slight impact on "some Games" Google it but lower timings and speed are more important also.

Smoothness is a different story I noticed a significant amount of smoothness swapping up from 8GB and 16GB to 24GB-32GB in games like FC3/4 and Dying Light at the time though I had an R9 280x 3GB and if you google "vram and system ram" there's an article that tests 2GB low vram cards impact on system ram while gaming.

Some ppl are so entrenched in their beliefs but it does go back to all games aren't created equally.

Sure JC3 will play on 8GB but for me it ran like total crap then I popped in another set of 2x4GB and it smoothed out.

In 2017 8GB of system ram is silly for a gaming PC if you want to play all games at their best.

[tacoshy]

İlk olarak scorpion tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak tacoshy tarafından gönderildi:

there is not a single game on that market that need more then 8GB RAM.

Play them on 2 or 4K resolution at the highest settings and we will talk about this again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyUyY6qI1-Q

yeah performance will be better not fps tho and it will even in 4K run with 8GB. That is whole point to the topic. You dont need more then 8GB RAM to run everything and there is no game that has as minimal reqquieremnt more then 8GB RAM (SW:BF1 2015 had 12GB during beta but after release dropped to 8GB). There games like you mentioned that would profit from more which doesnt mean they need it.

[ecznos]

I had 8 GB RAM while i was playing The Divison. The game absorbs more than 8 GB easily even on 1080p middle settings.

Of course you don't get more fps, but you will definetly profit if you have more RAM installed. It depends on settings.

[tacoshy]

İlk olarak scorpion tarafından gönderildi:

I had 8 GB RAM while i was playing The Divison. The game absorbs more than 8 GB easily even on 1080p middle settings.

Of course you don't get more fps, but you will definetly profit if you have more RAM installed. It depends on settings.

there you say what I just said. You can run the game with 8GB RAM but it would profit from it but not by getting more fps but having less stuttering and so on.

read my entire post on this thread befor trying to tear my threads apart...