Does Ram help FPS?

[GrizzGolf]

Simple dumb question. Does it? I was just reading online that it doesn’t. Why is that true? I thought the more ram you had the less load on your cpu and gpu?

[Mr Blonde]

Not really, it’s mostly cpu and gpu that does although you can gain a couple of FPS from quicker ram and in some games a smoother experience from more ram

[Omega]

Yes and no. It depends on the game and the system.

RAM ammount does not affect FPS as long as you have enough of it. If you run out of RAM the game will start to freeze and stutter during gameplay while it's loading stuff from the HDD/SSD.

RAM clockspeed will improve CPU performance on Ryzen systems which make use of an interposer (Infinity Fabric). APU/I-GPU systems are also very affected by RAM clockspeed since they use it as video memory. And it will improve performance in some RAM heavy games such as Fallout 4 and Battlefield 1.

RAM bandwidth (Single channel, Dual channel etc..) can in some RAM heavy games give you a sizable boost in performance. In APU/I-GPU systems dual channel memory can nearly double your performance over single channel in games.

[Monk]

Any a mount beyond what you are using won't help, speed however has a minor impact on Intel, so from 2400 to 3200MHz is around a 5 fps increase, but going much faster isn't linear, as latency tends to go up as speed does so keeping tight timings becomes hard. And expensive.

For AMD ryzen, it can have a large effect, 10-15% as its architecture needs fast ram, but again, going over that 3200 sweet spot is a limited benefit currently, ddr4 with its much higher speeds could change that sweet spot quite a lot however.

[𝔇ave]

ram helps fps to a certain degree.,. faster ram can deliver information to the cpu faster (to a point) which in turn can be passed on to the gpu faster. lack of ram can result in poor frametimes which causes stutter and sometimes crashes.

[_I_]

only if you do not have enough ram
or if its an apu, then system ram speed/performance makes a direct impact on fps

[nullable]

Publicado originalmente por GrizzGolf:

Simple dumb question. Does it? I was just reading online that it doesn’t. Why is that true?

If you don't have enough RAM, then certainly. If you have plenty of RAM, more isn't better.

I thought the more ram you had the less load on your cpu and gpu?

RAM is just fast storage, we load things into RAM because it's much faster than reading directly from the disk. "Load" on the CPU and GPU is work those devices are supposed to be doing, RAM doesn't alleviate that. Not having enough RAM means either the CPU or GPU, or both, are going to be waiting around while you first get data off the disk. I guess that would alleviate "load", because the CPU/GPU is doing less work while it's waiting. But of course that's pretty bad for performance.

[GrizzGolf]

Well to update I was having a shuttering problem while I was playing BFV. I went from 8gbs of Ram to now 16 and it’s like night and day. No more shutter and the game actually moves more fluently now.

[Monk]

Because you didn't have enough, but going to 32 wouldn't improve anything, unless it's needed.

[Mamba out]

if you play PUBG, then yes, i am not sure about other games. In fact, Ryzen paired with high frequency RAM will help some games increasing FPS compared to Intel paired with high frequency RAM.

[GrizzGolf]

Publicado originalmente por Monk:

Because you didn't have enough, but going to 32 wouldn't improve anything, unless it's needed.

So the 8 was holding me back. I have an i58400 and I was worried it was that but adding that extra ram made such a nice impact.

[xrodney]

Publicado originalmente por Mr Blonde:

Not really, it’s mostly cpu and gpu that does although you can gain a couple of FPS from quicker ram and in some games a smoother experience from more ram

That really depends. If you RAM ulitization is high, some stuff get moved to paging and it impact performance, sometimes by a lot.
And as memory speed and latency, it make difference too, small on Intel but sometimes huge on AMD. As example 2133 ->3200@CL14 moved my gaming FPS from 60 to 75 on Threadripper CPU.

[Monk]

Publicado originalmente por GrizzGolf:

Publicado originalmente por Monk:

Because you didn't have enough, but going to 32 wouldn't improve anything, unless it's needed.

So the 8 was holding me back. I have an i58400 and I was worried it was that but adding that extra ram made such a nice impact.

Yes basically, when ever you needed more than 8GB it would use your hdd or ssd instead, which is redicuously slow in comparison.

16GB is enough for 99% if gaming tasks, those with more will usually have a reason, like I use 32GB on both systems as I tend to have an ungodly number of chrome tabs open, and they can eat alit of memory and it saves me closing them to game lol