16GB RAM vs 32GB RAM

[Deathwing1306]

Hey, I have been wondering for a while and I was thinking about buying 2 more 8GB ram sticks so my PC has total of 32GB RAM.

I would like to ask you, is the +16GB worth it ?

I have seen few benchmarks and fps wise it doesn't really seem like anything changes at all, except for some games. Does it also affect anything else than fps ? like stutters, lag spikes and these kinds of annoying things ?

I would like to play the newest and very hardware hungry games on as high settings as possible like: Hogwarts Legacy, Red Dead Redemption 2, Dead Space Remake, RE4 Remake, Starfield, Lords of the Fallen, etc.

Some of these games do have minimum RAM requirements same as the recommended RAM requirements.

Starfield min = 16GB, rec = 16GB
Dead Space Remake min = 16GB, rec = 16GB

Wil the performance increase in these types of games which list 16GB as minimum as well as recommended ? or will the performance stay identical no matter the RAM capacity ?

Thanks!

[Illusion of Progress]

Escrito originalmente por plat:

If you're concerned about your mem consumption, keep looking at Task Manager or have your amt. of memory in-use factored into an onscreen display while you're in-game. For example, if you run RivaTuner Statistics Server + HWiNOF64, you can make the %mem in use easily via the Settings gear in HWiNFO.

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The best person to answer this question is none of us here, but you. Because only you have information to your own system's resource uses, and you should therefore become familiar with them. It tells you if this if your hardware is sufficient or if you can benefit from more. Takes the guesswork completely our of it.

Otherwise, we're guessing, or at best giving you generalizations based on trends.

Which, if you go by the trends of the times, yes, 16 GB has been being pushed in some of the heavier examples, although it remains more than relevant for the majority. So it's an "it depends, it could be either or" type of scenario. You'll have to analyze your system to see where you fall.

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Escrito originalmente por Deathwing1306:

Hey, I have been wondering for a while and I was thinking about buying 2 more 8GB ram sticks so my PC has total of 32GB RAM.

I would like to ask you, is the +16GB worth it ?

I have seen few benchmarks and fps wise it doesn't really seem like anything changes at all, except for some games. Does it also affect anything else than fps ? like stutters, lag spikes and these kinds of annoying things ?

I would like to play the newest and very hardware hungry games on as high settings as possible like: Hogwarts Legacy, Red Dead Redemption 2, Dead Space Remake, RE4 Remake, Starfield, Lords of the Fallen, etc.

Some of these games do have minimum RAM requirements same as the recommended RAM requirements.

Starfield min = 16GB, rec = 16GB
Dead Space Remake min = 16GB, rec = 16GB

Wil the performance increase in these types of games which list 16GB as minimum as well as recommended ? or will the performance stay identical no matter the RAM capacity ?

Thanks!

https://youtu.be/_4kAq-FRPhU?si=N68ODLC-Q0PgcsfY
Look at the frametime graph

[N3tRunn3r]

32 GB aka 2x 16 GB (DDR4) is fine and should be standard nowadays.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Escrito originalmente por Deathwing1306:

Escrito originalmente por W O K E I S M:

Oh, hell no, who told you that? You always populate all your dimms so you can take advantage of your ranks.

Four dimms has an advantage always over two. The only advantage that two dimms ever had over four is overclocking, and that's a CPU issue not RAM. The CPU gets stressed if you have four dimms and overclock.

https://www.techspot.com/article/1971-more-ram-modules-better-for-gaming/

I have never oveclocked my CPU, I saw benchmarks in which 4x8GB perform better in terms of FPS than 2x16GB, but people are telling me here that I should do 2x16GB instead of 4x8GB...

I have also made some research on my MB and it seems like that dual channel is either the best way or the only way for it to work ? idk lol

Well don't listen to them. Just because someone tells you to do something doesn't mean you have to do it. I can tell you right now with confidence that four dimms is better for performance and two dimms is better for overclocking.

What's more important? Overclocking? Or actually fps increase? If you want stability and performance improvement then four matching dimms is the way to go. It doesn't matter what frequency it is when it's running like this that's how optimized four dimms is vs two.