2gb vs 4gb

[Unmatched]

I just bought a laptop with a 960m 2gb ddr5 ram. would 4gb of ram make a big difference than 2gb of ram in gameplay?

[MidnightAccident]

well 4 gigs of ram is better than 2, most games require at least 4 to run properly.

there's a few games out that require 8, though.

[Unmatched]

any example of what games take 4 gigs?

[_I_]

no

the 960m cant effectively use its 2g of vram, putting more will allow for higher settings but with those settings it will not hold a good fps

[[☥] - CJ -]

i think yall are confusing GPU VRAM with Physical RAM.

You cant upgrade a mobile GPUs VRAM, you can only upgrade the Physical RAM which are the RAM sticks.

[_I_]

if the notebook has 2g of system ram, upgrading to 4 or 8g would be a massive improvement

but if it came with teh gtx 960m ods are it has 4g of system ram or more

[vadim]

inflict님이 먼저 게시:

I just bought a laptop with a 960m 2gb ddr5 ram. would 4gb of ram make a big difference than 2gb of ram in gameplay?

That is pure marketing hype. You don't really need 4GB even for desktop GTX 960. And they no doubts completely useless for 960m.

[LGsus]

The VRAM is useful at higher resolutions
Here is a video with difference in the gtx 960 (Desktop version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_mW36BDKs
Also the 4GB version is EVGA and 2GB version is Asus, normaly EVGA have higher clock speeds than Asus.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Salty님이 먼저 게시:

well 4 gigs of ram is better than 2, most games require at least 4 to run properly.

there's a few games out that require 8, though.

He means VRAM; which a 960 can't utilize fully anyways for the 4GB models.
If you want proper VRAM usage, get a 970M or better.
960M is really only good for 768p or so; nothing more really. It will not handle 1080p very well.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

jesus20281님이 먼저 게시:

The VRAM is useful at higher resolutions
Here is a video with difference in the gtx 960 (Desktop version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_mW36BDKs
Also the 4GB version is EVGA and 2GB version is Asus, normaly EVGA have higher clock speeds than Asus.

This means nothing when comes to 960M

[Unmatched]

thank you guys. i bought a budget gaming laptop for 1000 dollars and it came with 2gb ram. so far im not to odissapointed because i knew buying it, it wouldnt be the best PC around. thank you for your input though

[pike]

not with a 960m , a lot of ram is nice but the card has to be good enough to utilize it

[initiaLiSeD]

GTX 960 2GB vs 4GB vs 380 2GB vs 4GB
http://www.techspot.com/review/1114-vram-comparison-test/
Only Rainbow Six gets a tangible boost from 4GB cards but that only really comes into play on the Radeon 380.

Basically the GTX960 is too weak to run games that could benefit from 4GB. The GTX 960M is a weaker GPU therefore even less able to exploit double memory.

[The Brown Hornet]

inflict님이 먼저 게시:

thank you guys. i bought a budget gaming laptop for 1000 dollars and it came with 2gb ram. so far im not to odissapointed because i knew buying it, it wouldnt be the best PC around. thank you for your input though

You could of bought a much better laptop for way less than $1000, even a $400 Toshiba Satellite would come with 6gigs of RAM

[Unmatched]

The Brown Hornet님이 먼저 게시:

inflict님이 먼저 게시:

thank you guys. i bought a budget gaming laptop for 1000 dollars and it came with 2gb ram. so far im not to odissapointed because i knew buying it, it wouldnt be the best PC around. thank you for your input though

You could of bought a much better laptop for way less than $1000, even a $400 Toshiba Satellite would come with 6gigs of RAM

We are talking aboug vga ram, the computer itself came with 16gb ram upgradable to 32. there is only about 2 other laptops that have the same specs, all around $1000, one of them being the MSI and the other is the acer aspire nitro black v17

[TUPUCK]

_I_님이 먼저 게시:

no

the 960m cant effectively use its 2g of vram, putting more will allow for higher settings but with those settings it will not hold a good fps

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