16 vs 32gb Sweet Spot in the future.

[AllFoe]

I've been wondering if 16gb of ram will be enough or still be the "Sweet Spot" by 2027-2028 or will 32gb overtake it. 

[boggy77]

3 minutes ago, AllFoe said:

2027-2028

we don't even know if humanity will still exist that far in the future. how would we know whether 16gb of ram will be enough?

[19_blackie_73]

According to the past and my experience, yes

But the real question is, why care now about it?

[AllFoe]

6 minutes ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

According to the past and my experience, yes

But the real question is, why care now about it?

Just planning on buying a laptop. The 16gb has 8gb soldered. 32gb has 16gb soldered. Just curious if it would last long enough until I plan on building a rig or replacing it with a new laptop.

[Mateyyy]

Should be fine for 2027, but 2028... hard to say.

 

The real question however is whether 10GB of VRAM will be enough in 2077.

[AllFoe]

8 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

Should be fine for 2027, but 2028... hard to say.

 

The real question however is whether 10GB of VRAM will be enough in 2077.

make it 24GB VRAM.

[jaslion]

39 minutes ago, AllFoe said:

Just planning on buying a laptop. The 16gb has 8gb soldered. 32gb has 16gb soldered. Just curious if it would last long enough until I plan on building a rig or replacing it with a new laptop.

That laptop will be not good enough for a most games by then. Productivity will also be reduced to light tasks so basically don't spend more money on a feature that will most likely never be used by you before you replace the laptop/ it becomes to weak to use the resource.