Ram and integrated graphics

[bahaaeldeen01]

Does adding an additional 8gb stick of DDR3 ram to a 4gb ram laptop improves integrated graphics performance? even a little bit?

 

Laptop specs:

Core i3 3120M

Intel HD graphics 4000

4gb DDR3 1600Mhz single channel

 

[mariushm]

Yes. How much... very little.

You'll get a performance bump in everything from the fact that applications (and games) swap less to disk and they can keep more stuff in 8 GB of memory so everything will be snappier and smoother.

 

Should probably look into what processors your laptop supports ... upgrading to an i5 cpu first (could be cheap, under 50$) may give you more performance in games that can work on that integrated graphics..

[bahaaeldeen01]

2 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Yes. How much... very little.

You'll get a performance bump in everything from the fact that applications (and games) swap less to disk and they can keep more stuff in 8 GB of memory so everything will be snappier and smoother.

 

Should probably look into what processors your laptop supports ... upgrading to an i5 cpu first (could be cheap, under 50$) may give you more performance in games that can work on that integrated graphics..

Thank you!
Are 12gb of ram to an i3 processor considered overkill?