Does 32 GB RAM give you more performance?

[Guest]

I just thought about the fact that all of these pro gamers have 32 gigs, or even 64 in their system. But I don't think it would change the performance at all, or if so, just a very small amount. So they probably just have it because they can, but what's the point?

[IdiotPenguin]

Miniscule performance gains. These "pro gamers" are probably content creators as well so more ram = content creation stuffs yknow?

 

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or they can afford it lmao oof

 

[Fasauceome]

It's more money in the system, therefore a real pro will spring for it. No, it doesn't help any games.

[Mick Naughty]

Pro gamers would also be sponsored. At that same point, the why not factor comes in. 

 

Only nocited an increase on ddr3 but not worth the FPS gain given the price. 

[ATFink]

It'll only benefit you if the amount of RAM you have currently is insufficient for whatever it is that you do and 32 GB is more than you currently have. Otherwise, no, it won't  make a difference.

[LukeSavenije]

32 gigs for gaming? No. 32 gigs for something like solidworks? Heck yeah

[Velcade]

No gaps in your RGB man! 

[Mick Naughty]

^ this. I use a water block too so no one would know. 

[SimplyChunk]

Anything more than 16Gb in a pure gaming machine probably means the owner is 'lacking' in other departments  

[SimplyChunk]

And just a side note, I've only got 8Gb and i'm not missing out on anything

[JoostinOnline]

"Pro gamers" often stream their content, which means video editing.

[LukeSavenije]

3 minutes ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

And just a side note, I've only got 8Gb and i'm not missing out on anything

Well, opinions. I'll keep it for myself this time...

[SimplyChunk]

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

Well, opinions. I'll keep it for myself this time...

[Mick Naughty]

Lol 8 gigs of ddr3 isn’t enough unless the system is inherently weak. Wouldn’t wonna try it with ddr4 on the current system, that’s for sure. 

[Amazonsucks]

56 minutes ago, hiitswilliam said:

I just thought about the fact that all of these pro gamers have 32 gigs, or even 64 in their system. But I don't think it would change the performance at all, or if so, just a very small amount. So they probably just have it because they can, but what's the point?

Can change performance by a huge amount if you go over 16GB, which is why i bought 32 back in 2016. I regularly exceed 16GB used and it would be 1000x slower to access the SSD than DRAM.

 

There are single shared memory systems that scale to 64TB of RAM which use 512GB DDR4 DIMMs currently and there have been systems like the YARCData Urika that scaled to 512TB shared memory because there are workloads that require keeping things in memory.

 

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/power-system-e980

 

Keep in mind those are shared memory computers, not distributed. Distributed memory systems like IBM Summit can have about 3PB of DRAM now.

 

Its all about what you need. When you consider that 32GB is actually a small size for a single DIMM for servers it sort of puts things in perspective.

[xg32]

it probably gives u less performance for gaming than 16gb unless you run out of ram.

[Amazonsucks]

4 minutes ago, xg32 said:

it probably gives u less performance for gaming than 16gb unless you run out of ram.

How could it give you LESS? 

[xg32]

2 minutes ago, Amazonsucks said:

How could it give you LESS? 

try running 4 sticks or 32gb at 4000+ with tighter timings. That's why the dark and the extreme only has 2 ram slots.

[Amazonsucks]

7 minutes ago, xg32 said:

try running 4 sticks or 32gb at 4000+ with tighter timings. That's why the dark and the extreme only has 2 ram slots.

So only in the case of running overclocked RAM with non-standard timings vs running more RAM at normal speeds and timings. Yeah ill stick with the HPC/big data way of doing things. I regularly exceed 16GB so id be getting 1000x slower access from whatever was paged to my SSD.

 

I always go for higher capacity with standard speed RAM, because the slowest DRAM is still 1000x an SSD. And its much more likely that one will run out of capacity because of software increasing requirements than a few hundred MHz making the difference and requiring an upgrade.

[Guest]

Anybody ever see this? 

 

[Guest]

It just depends on what kind of work you're doing.

[SimplyChunk]

3 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

Lol 8 gigs of ddr3 isn’t enough unless the system is inherently weak. Wouldn’t wonna try it with ddr4 on the current system, that’s for sure. 

8Gb DDR4 is fine.  It's all my 6600k/1070 has had since i built her

[Columbo]

At this point the only reason to have 8GB of ram is price of ram. 16GB of memory has been the standard for any gaming rig. You can get by with 8GB of ram but 32GB is something people may consider with lower memory prices.