How much RAM do you need in 2023? 8 GB vs 16GB vs 32 GB vs 64GB / Test in 10 Games / 1440p

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0:00 Resident Evil 4 Remake
0:28 Sons of the Forest
0:58 Hogwarts Legacy
1:28​ Atomic Heart
1:58 Fortnite
2:28 Dead Space Remake
2:58 Wildhearts
3:28 Call of Duty Warzone 2.0
3:58 Forspoken
4:28 Cyberpunk 2077

Each benchmark run is repeated at least three times. The average value from all three runs is entered into the index.

Jeder Benchmark-Durchlauf wird mindestens drei Mal wiederholt. In den Index eingetragen wird der Durchschnittswert aus allen drei Durchläufen.

Каждый прогон бенчмарка повторяется не менее трех раз. В индекс вводится среднее значение по всем трем прогонам.

How much RAM do you need in 2023? 8 GB vs 16GB vs 32 GB vs 64GB / Test in 10 Games / 1440p

[Ayanami_Kai]

I bought a 64 GB RAM not because for gaming but my hobby for not closing Google Chrome tabs in which I have 100 tabs open.

Edit: for the people who makes fun of my old comment, at the time google used to load all your tabs even when they are not open, a recent update fixed this but its just a workaround, google wont load them if you dont click the tab but of course if you click all your tabs your RAM usage will be the same like before, but luckily I dont open all of my tabs, they are just there, yes bookmarking is a thing but I like it better this way and also easier to navigate.

[SekiberiusWelkesh]

The nice thing about 32gb paired with a 12 core processor is that you can have tons of stuff open in the background with little to no performance impact.

[nocturneuh]

Remember, RAM that includes RGB and racing stripes will give you at least another 8~10 fps in Forza

[djenk]

We are lucky that the 64gb do not have just 1 frame more, then we had to buy more ram.

[comemonster]

(tip) RAM doesn't increase performance but increases the chance you won't experience stuttering or frame drops due to a lack of memory

[StageByOne]

32 is becoming the ideal choice now, cosidering background apps and stuff

[TheMightyThor]

I was really considering jumping to 32gb but i think i can wait, thank you so much for this. All though i would have like to see comparisions during more fast action sequences

[StormFahrt]

32gb is the sweet spot now for newer games. Seems most of the new one need about 20gb of RAM may as well get 32 if thats the case. Went from 16gb on my old to 32 on my new PC because I was going for a bit over what i needed. Glad i did too since it look like 16gb will be a tiny bit low going forward.

[ARch]

The benefits of having more ram is that your games session won't crash after the ram runs out so can have longer game session. Have more program opened. Can set to no file system caching good for SSD. Running 64GB ram.

[larsjrgensen]

Memory is sometimes not as simple as a FPS counter.
When I have a browser and other things open to deliberately starve games, the average FPS are not effected directly.
I more see animation freezes or hitches in games and sometimes the textures are not loaded in correctly, because it is running out of space to work with.
A figure or person in a game can load in without textures and looking like something from low settings in original World of Warcraft, before it gets the correct shadows and textures 1 sec later.

[Dimythios]

Went to 64 Gb years ago. What people forget is that you can play games and have a crap load of things going on in the back ground with no degradation. Or have your Youtube play list running at the same time while playing your game. Or do real video/streaming/graphic editing.

Yea you can play certain games at lower Ram, But if you do not have at least 32 GB or higher then you are missing out on getting all of the potential performance from your computer. And DDR4 prices are good now.

[YouAreStillNotablaze]

Got to think about some wiggle room for mods and the like. Also having other apps running, a browser maybe, side apps, and the convenience of multi-tasking.

[patrickdulfo]

8gb VRAM didnt become irrelevant, the developers just got lazy optimizing the games and instead just relies on DLSS/FSR

[zrs]

I went from 4G to 16G ram, definitely a noticeable improvement.

[jerrymurphy]

I would like to point out that people running a Ryzen CPU may really want to consider upgrading amount of ram. GamersNexus did a video over a year ago about 2 vs 4 sticks of ram. His test were all 8GB sticks. So 16gb (2X8) vs 32gb (4X8). All using optimal CL 14 timing. 4 sticks boosted performance in all games. Anywhere from a low 1% boost to upto a 10% boost. Just by running 4 sticks instead of 2. It's not that any of the games even used 16GB of ram. It is simply that it benefited from using all 4 slots. He also verified his findings with a level 1 tech from AMD.
If you have the budget and plan on keeping your AM4 socket for a long time. You may want to grab more ram before DDR4 goes up in price because they'll stop making DDR4.

[ToysForTheGods]

There definitely seems to be an issue with the 32gb kit, the 1% lows are taking a huge hit, either something with timing or perhaps the way the memory is being allocated by that particular system. I have seen issues like these with RAM on ASUS motherboards that tend to do some funny things with memory timing, in some cases like my previous ASUS motherboard I was never able to get the memory kit that I had stable, it was a 32gb kit of GSKILL platinum but it worked fine in two other systems that I had. I ended up getting an Asrock motherboard and never experienced that issue again. Either way the strange 1% lows are just confusing in this scenario for the 32gb kit

[DylanZ]

32GB is future proofing and also so cheap right now, you can get away with 16GB for now but games are starting to use more and more ram and 32GB is starting to slowly become the recommended. You can also just do more with 32GB in terms of background applications while gaming so it's an advantage of 16GB.

[HLDeadMan]

I think, 16 GB is already on the edge. When games massively starts to jump on Unreal Engine 5 from UE4 - 16 GB will be a minimum with turned off background apps.

[Ark_Strike]

This benchmark is good, latency and speed aren't an issue due to all kits being equal, but I'm worried this is a synthetic benchmark with a fresh windows install so it doesn't have as much stuff happening in the back as a more fleshed and used session would normally. I know for a fact my windows has over 5gb in use just after finishing booting and about 7.2gb when I open Brave with over 100+ tabs open which is not a general case but its almost in the middle.

[wadewhistle]

When it comes to using more than 16GB of ram its not about the fps its more the smoothness at that point less stutters and hitching happen when you use 32gb to 64gb of ram its a smoothness you have to experience for yourself in order to understand.