Is 8gb of ram bottlenecking after effects?

[Legolessed]

I use after effects and the adobe media encoder and both have been running pretty slowly lately so I am wondering if 8gb of memory is the bottleneck and if upgrading to 16gb will help or if it's not worth it. 

 

When I'm in after effects I can't play back my timeline, even at quarter resolution with 1080p60fps footage without major freezes, stutturs, and crashing. When I render with the adobe media encoder it will take hours to render a 30-40 minute video with medium editing. 

 

Computer specs:

Cpu: xeon e2690

Gpu: sapphire rx 580 8gb

Memory: hyperx fury ddr3 1800mhz (runs at 1600mhz because of the cpu)

Storage: 240gb SSD and 350gb hard drive

 

Thank you!

 

 

[Fasauceome]

It sounds like a ram problem, but it would be very easy to check yourself to see if all of your ram is being used. 

[Legolessed]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

It sounds like a ram problem, but it would be very easy to check yourself to see if all of your ram is being used. 

It's usually pegged at 90+% from when I open after effects and if I try to open any other application while after effects is running it dies pretty quickly I just don't want to upgrade and realize it won't help since my computer isn't exactly a super computer.

[Skiiwee29]

Yea, definitely a RAM bottleneck.