POLL - How much RAM do you have?

[AusWolf]

32 GB in my main rig, 8 GB in the HTPC. Both of them are overkill for the intended purpose.

 

[GorbazTheDragon]

I have 8GB in my laptop and it's pain...

 

[Aquinus]

10,1 GB in use.
Try to guess what i am doing that is using that much memory

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I'll see your 10.7GB and raise you 58.69GB.

Normally I'm closer to 43GB when I'm working, but this day I had a lot going on. I usually keep docker closed unless I'm using it as well.

 

[FireFox]

I pretty much only do gaming and media/casual use on my PC so atm 16 is enough

Do you play COD CW?
It uses 16GB+

 

[Sithaer]

Do you play COD CW?
It uses 16GB+

I was wondering when someone will ask that.

No I don't play any competitive game and I'm yet to see higher than 10-11 usage in the games I play. 'mainly single player titles and older games too'

Also doesn't that game use that much only when that cache thing is enabled?
I did play CoD WW 2 story mode and even that had high Vram/Ram usage if I enabled that so I just kept it disabled.

 

[64K]

I was wondering when someone will ask that.

No I don't play any competitive game and I'm yet to see higher than 10-11 usage in the games I play. 'mainly single player titles and older games too'

Also doesn't that game use that much only when that cache thing is enabled?
I did play CoD WW 2 story mode and even that had high Vram/Ram usage if I enabled that so I just kept it disabled.

COD games are odd that way. The engine does the same thing with VRAM. It loads up the available space even if the textures might not be used. One of the posters here had a Titan Maxwell and he showed around 11 GB of VRAM being used in COD: Advanced Warfare.

 

[looniam]

never seen my usage go past 5.5Gb so i have 128GB.

 

[AusWolf]

COD games are odd that way. The engine does the same thing with VRAM. It loads up the available space even if the textures might not be used. One of the posters here had a Titan Maxwell and he showed around 11 GB of VRAM being used in COD: Advanced Warfare.

Quite a few games behave similarly. I've heard the same about the Resident Evil remakes. They allocate as much VRAM as possible without using it all. I've noticed Cyberpunk 2077 do the same. It can allocate over 6 GB on my RTX 2070, but it only needed between 3-3.5 GB on the 1650 I started playing it on.

If you look at RAM usage on the Windows desktop without any programs open, you'll see it differ across systems with different amounts of RAM available. Hence, anno 2021, 16 GB for a gaming rig is fine.

 

[FireFox]

COD games are odd that way. The engine does the same thing with VRAM.

Indeed.
CW uses 10GB of VRM.

 

[trog100]

how much ram people have tends to be governed by the price.. when its cheap people have more of it..

with 32 as the new norm it must be cheap at the moment.. he he

trog

 

[64K]

You will know if you don't have enough VRAM because the engine will start using System RAM which is much slower than VRAM and hence the FPS goes way down.

 

[FireFox]

how much ram people have tends to be governed by the price..

Yes and no.
At least for me.

 

[Aquinus]

You will know if you don't have enough VRAM because the engine will start using System RAM which is much slower than VRAM and hence the FPS goes way down.

You'll also see GPU load drop. This happened to me when I was running two 6870s in Crossfire when a game used more than 1GB by about 15% or more.

how much ram people have tends to be governed by the price.. when its cheap people have more of it..

Meh, I got 64GB regardless of the price because I knew I could put it to work. I probably would have got 128GB if I could have.

 

[AusWolf]

how much ram people have tends to be governed by the price.. when its cheap people have more of it..

with 32 as the new norm it must be cheap at the moment.. he he

trog

Maybe. As for me, it's governed by the use case. A gaming rig needs 16 GB, though double that doesn't hurt. An office / home theatre PC needs 4 GB minimum, though 8 GB is best practice.

 

[Flanker]

I don't play many modern (as in, published in the past 5 years) games so it looks like a lousy 16GB stick is more than enough. For my dad's office PC I gave it 8GB, even with the iGPU eating some of it away, it's doing OK

 

[WhitetailAni]

32GB, 4x8GB @ 3333 C16-16-16-32. It's a mixed kit too, half B-die (3200 C14-14-14-31) half Nanya Tech (3200 C16-18-18-36).

 

[GorbazTheDragon]

You will know if you don't have enough VRAM because the engine will start using System RAM which is much slower than VRAM and hence the FPS goes way down.

A lot of newer engines just automatically lower texture settings or load in low Res textures or geometry which gets replaced by the high detail stuff once it finishes loading from system memory.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
x99 4x8gb
x299 apex 4x8gb
z490 apex 2x8gb
Waiting for a decent speed/ price for some 4000c14 or c15-16 2x16gb for z490

 

[lexluthermiester]

The title says it all. I have 32GB myself.

Some of us have more than one system. You should allow for more than one answer. For example, I have 6 systems, 2x8GB, 12GB, 24GB, 32GB and 48GB.

 

[freeagent]

I am running 32GB myself, but could get by with 16. I'm just in it for the extra performance

 

[Bill_Bright]

I remember when 2MB was mainstream and 4MB was a lot.

Well, I won't hold your obvious youthful lack of experience against you. I remember when 512Kb was considered "more than you will ever need!"

8GB today is still more than most users need - especially with a SSD. We have to keep in mind that most users are NOT gamers. Most users use their computers for social media, email, MS Word and other "office" type tasks.

I consider 16GB as the "sweet spot" for most users today. That is, less than 16GB and performance noticeably suffers, more than 16GB and performance gains are marginal at best.

32GB is the "nice to have" minimum amount for enthusiasts and professional heavy taskers (CAD/CAE, graphics designers).

64GB or more is the "way to go" for those professionals.

Of course, there are exceptions in every category, depending on the program running, if running VMs and how many, and other factors.

There is no maximum for those seeking bragging rights.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Question is, how many of you with 32gb use it just in a gaming rig?

 

[Bill_Bright]

how many of you with 32gb use it just in a gaming rig?

37.

 

[micropage7]

me, just 10GB

 

[xrobwx71]

I have had 64 since 2019.