The Youtuber Byte Sized Tech speaks in a video about the question of whether the upgrade from 32 GB RAM to a whopping 64 GB is worthwhile. A Reddit user took the statements, which were quite differentiated in detail, as a recommendation of 64 GB for games – and triggered a big discussion with the appropriate contribution:
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In his video, the Youtuber explains why he needs such a large amount of RAM. He mainly justifies this with the fact that he uses many other applications that require the memory in addition to playing games. For example, a YouTube video or Twitch stream is running at the same time, he has many browser tabs open and his data from the hard drive is continuously uploaded to the cloud. He also uses two monitors.
Probably the biggest feature: He also likes to run two games at the same time. In the video, he explains that he’s chatting in a game while optimizing his tanks in World of Tanks. Ultimately, he justifies it by saying that his computer should serve him and not the other way around. So he doesn’t want to be limited by the amount of RAM or other factors. You can watch his full argument for yourself in the video:
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The Reddit community, on the other hand, is quite unanimous that 64GB is far too much for gaming, as most gamers use their PC and RAM at significantly lower rates.
According to the community, however, there are certain special cases in which you can need 64 GB for a game: If you download a lot of extra content and mods in Cities Skylines, for example, your RAM will fill up quickly. If you have enough RAM, we have compiled the 12 best mods for Cities Skylines for you.
64 GB of RAM for games: Our assessment
According to our own measurements, 16.0 GB of RAM is more than sufficient for games in most cases. In the appropriate benchmarks, we ran various games with 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB and did not notice any significantly better performance when switching from 16 to 32 GB, neither in the average nor in the minimum FPS:
In the end, your hardware and user behavior decide: Of course, we don’t want to say that every user will be satisfied with 16 GB of RAM. Especially since we used tidy test systems with a fast CPU and without many background applications.
For an optimal gaming experience, however, we generally recommend that you do not run too many (unnecessary) background applications. And even if you do that, in our opinion, in most cases you should be able to get by with 32.0 GB of RAM at the latest.
What are your experiences with the topic? How much RAM do you have and how much of it are you actually using? When playing, do you only concentrate on the game itself or do you have other programs, streams or videos open to you? Let us know in the comments.