8GB vs 16GB vs 32GB RAM | How much RAM do you need for GAMING in 2021?

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video if you want to see the results of this video go to the link in the description 8 versus 16 versus 32 gigabytes of ram eight two times four gigabytes uh 16 two times eight gigabytes and 32 gigabytes four times eight gigabytes now all the sticks obviously are single rank if you don't know what is single rank and dual rank basically single rank is the the memory chips so you have a memory stick and the memory chips are just in one side of the memory stick while dual rank has the memory chips in the both sides of the memory stick so dual rank is actually faster because of having both sides fulfilled with memory chips so yeah and i'm telling you this because there are some misleading videos on the internet telling you how fast four sticks how much faster four sticks are compared to two sticks and most of them are i i won't call them fake but they are misleading so most of them for example are showing you dual channel versus squad channel results and obviously quad channel will be faster but what channel is not presented in the the consumer cpu grade so only servers only high performance computing for example on the amd side you only have quad channel with the thread reapers uh epic cpus that have octa channel i think so yeah but all ryzens just have dual channels so it doesn't matter if you have four sticks it is still two sticks per channel and still dual channel the second one is that it has to do also with your motherboard ram topology you have daisy chain which is presented in more than 90 of the motherboards worldwide and you have t topology so basically uh those that have daisy chain the most common even my x 570 f strix as daisy chain basically it favors um two slots over the other two that's why they tell you to to put the ram in slot two and four instead of the one and three because those motherboards do favor the the second and the fourth slot to actually make higher overclocking as for the t topology motherboards uh they do favor four sticks of ram and in some videos the 4 sticks of ram being faster than the 2 sticks only because of that but well let's not make this even longer than it should be if you want to hear more about this just wait for the conclusion because i will talk more about several aspects of ram uh what helps ram what does not help ram and so on so and so on but don't forget hit like subscribe and share this video if you think you will enjoy it because you still didn't see the results whatever hit like subscribe and share this video and let's now go to the results [Music] so to start today's benchmarking we have assassin's creed valhalla using ultra settings the orange bars are gaming only while the black ones are gaming plus apps as we can see at 1080p we get more fps due to being a lower resolution so we also get a slightly higher difference in terms of average fps they are all in between the margin of error being the 32 gigabytes option the only one to suffer almost no drops in average fps and most importantly in the one percent lows although we must understand that unless you are playing over 120 average fps the difference is still meaningless and you will definitely not notice it in terms of gameplay at least in this game [Music] foreign the second one is ghost recon breakpoint using vulcan api and very high settings once again we have the same tendency as before eight gigabytes and 16 gigabytes kits will lose a bit of average fps and one percent lows while the 32 gigabytes kit will only have a bit less average fps maintaining the one percent lows values at 1440p and 4k it becomes even more noticeable overall unless you are aiming to play at over 100 fps and have a gpu with less than let's say 6 gigabytes of vram you will run this game pretty fine even with only 8 gigabytes ram but sometimes sometimes something crawls out from behind the poster and the ones that see it happen freak out and try to forget what they saw i'm here why did you bring me here now with remedy's control using the x12 and high settings which are the maximum ones here the differences are even less noticeable with the average fps being virtually the same while having only minor differences in the one percent lows this at 1080p since moving to higher resolutions make things even in all scenarios nothing more to say so well let's move on so now with horizon zeroed on a game that people claim to be impossible to play with only 8 gigabytes of ram well i do not like to be the devil's advocate but i have to disagree as i tested yes you do have less fps if you have less ram even more if you have apps in the background that's a fact still i think that most people that are complaining about heavy lag in this game with 8 gigabytes of ram only are mostly the ones using single channel so 1 stick of ram only or they have for example a gpu with very low vram because once vram is full the system will compensate by using more ram or most likely they have the game installed in a slow hard drive and i do not have this game on an ssd just a decent hard drive so yeah basically more ram is better and it helps preventing one stutter here and there but not an astonishing difference as has been said one thing i noticed though is that the 32 gigabytes kit improved the benchmark loading times a lot making the benchmark loading almost immediately while the other two kits took like 30 seconds or more to load the benchmark so that may affect the loading in some parts of the game also been a while spin it what you need pepe asked me to talk you up people were always asking me where is the cyberpunk benchmark so here it is i did the test with custom settings which basically consist in everything set to high with four settings to medium the test was made in the beginning of the street kit for more consistency so well as for the results at 1440p and 4k we're hovering below 100 fps and the differences are quite inexistent still with 32 gigabytes maintaining the performance even with apps in the background that same maintained performance is even more noticeable at 1080p mostly in the one percent lows that have a 10 fps decrease when running apps in the background both with 8 gigabytes and 16 gigabytes being 32 gigabytes the only one that doesn't have a performance cut because of that overall even with only 8 gigabytes of ram this game is more than playable if you have a gpu with a decent vram amount the division 2 is one of the best optimized ubisoft games the results are more or less the same at 1440p and 4k the ram capacity makes absolutely nothing in terms of performance although you can see that the textures do take a bit longer to load while having only 8 gigabytes of ram and that may kill the gaming experience to some i myself do not like it much interestingly at 1080p 32 gigabytes with apps running in the background at fairly lower one percent lows than the 8 gigabyte kit and the same comparing to 16 gigabytes kit and no i did not mess the results up maybe something happened in the in the browser tabs for example in one or two of the browser tabs that were opened and caused these dips i don't know but the results are what they are now with another game that my viewers love to see tested once again this is a ubisoft game and once again the one percent lows at 1080p are quite messed up at least for the 16 gigabytes kit but well we're running at almost 500 average fps and over 300 fps into one percent lows so a small variation may easily affect the one percent close results for example once again something happened in one of the browser tabs that i opened and that seems to be the case since once we got the more natural result at 1440p and 4k the differences are null and it makes sense because although it got updated rainbow six siege is a game from 2015 so anything over 8 gigabytes of ram is completely fine today's last game is red dead redemption 2. we all know how heavy this game is and this game is actually pretty nice to show actual differences at 1080p using only 8 gigabytes of ram is quite fine for gaming only but once you have apps running in the background the minimum fps just tanks to 33.2 fps making the game feel way less smooth also with only 8 gigabytes the game would close itself once i click the windows key to access the desktop it would simply close automatically without asking or showing anything and that did not happen with the 16 and the 32 gigabytes kits back to the results again with 16 gigabytes we still have reduced minimum fps when using apps in the background but instead of going down to 33 they are maintained at 57 and the 32 gigabytes kit makes it 62 which is actually pretty decent although the results seem fine this game needs indeed at least 16 gigabytes of ram to run silky smooth like zohan said now that we know the results let's go to the conclusion you've seen the results and the results um are self-explanatory but some people may say hey man but i do have literally literally a mount a huge amount of stutters with only eight gigabytes of ram uh i don't know what's happening i don't know how you do not have those stutters i do not know how the the results are so equal in most games there are two important things to uh let's say to balance um to balance the your pc when you have a low amount of ram the first is your hard drive your system hard drive and the second one is your gpu vram the hard drive why because there's a thing in windows called page file what does page file do basically uh the page file is an amount of an amount of space uh created in your hard drive in your windows hard drive you can create in anothers manually but usually uh on your windows r drive that when you are in need of ram so basically you need more ram that your system can provide that your system has it will use your hard drive as ram of course it will be way slower than the normal ram uh hence getting those crashes and so on so on so on but now since almost everyone has at least a sata 3 ssd uh most of them have now nvmes like me and some others because the the hard drives are getting cheaper and cheaper so basically now almost everyone has an ssd as windows at least four windows or an nvme so the page file so the the page file sorry will be way faster than the older gen hdds so you won't lose that much performance because your ssd or your nvme will help a lot that's one of the factors and the other factor is vram ram and vram work in um in an interesting way because for example if you have a 16 gigabytes of ram you have 16 gigabytes of ram and your gpu has only 4 gigabytes of vram for example an rx 570 4 gigabytes if you play a game that actually uses more than four gigabytes of vram and you push those settings over the four gigabytes vram what will happen is that your system will kind of balance will kind of balance things by using more ram for example usually it would use like uh five gigabytes six gigabytes but since you you are running out of vram your system will use for example instead of the five or six we'll use 7 or 8 or 9 because you're out of vram so your system is using ram to kind of compensate that that's one of the things and it can be the opposite also so if you have a low amount of ram but you kind of have a big amount of vram uh your vram will also help preventing those stutters but if you have low ram and low vram then those stutters may be uh really hard to avoid an ssd will always help the page file on the ssd will always help but not as much as the ram vram combination and well now that you understand why the results are what they are well i think that's there's no much more to say really thanks a lot for watching if you have any doubts leave a comment in the comment section and let me know your doubts also let me know what you think about the results and what is your experience with several amounts several capacities of ram and vram and well thanks a lot for watching don't forget hit like subscribe and share this video because that really helps a lot and see you in the next one guys see ya [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 20min 38sec (1238 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 10 2021