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I want to upgrade my laptop ram to 20gb. Is it worth it?

Hello, I have 8GB of RAM right now and want to upgrade it to 20GB, will this 20GB RAM boost effect my gaming experience?

Right now my laptop running a AMD Vega 8 1GB and Radeon 535 2GB paired with an AMD Ryzen 2500u, 64bit Windows 10, and a 1366x768 60Hz.

I'm not aiming to play AAA games, only basic games like fifa, nba, farcry, etc in low-med settings because upgrading 16GB RAM is not have a big difference in price than to 8GB

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It's not going to help much more than 16 GB will (Even that is a stretch. Your system is Power/Thermal limited for the most part, or CPU bottlenecked). I'd suggest keeping the memory controllers balanced at 16 GB. (8 GB in each SODIMM slot, assuming your laptop is set up that way.)

Main: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, 16 GB 4400 MHz DDR4 Fedora 38 x86_64

Secondary: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Fedora 38 x86_64

Server: AMD Athlon PRO 3125GE, 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 ECC, TrueNAS Core 13.0-U5.1

Home Laptop: Intel Core i5-L16G7, 8 GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4x, Windows 11 Home 22H2 x86_64

Work Laptop: Intel Core i7-10510U, NVIDIA Quadro P520, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x86_64

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Just now, svmlegacy said:

It's not going to help much more than 16 GB will (Even that is a stretch. Your system is Power/Thermal limited for the most part, or CPU bottlenecked). I'd suggest keeping the memory controllers balanced at 16 GB. (8 GB in each SODIMM slot, assuming your laptop is set up that way.)

so it's not worth it? because upgrading to 16gb cost me $55 and 32gb cost me $100

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Your current 8gb is probably fine for that system, you are more limited by cpu and gpu so make sure your temps are fine and you dont have anything in the background using up resources (because background bloatware can hit slower cpus like that pretty hard).

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1 hour ago, ghazyllaa said:

so it's not worth it? because upgrading to 16gb cost me $55 and 32gb cost me $100

32 GB is certainly not worth it. The 16 GB may help a bit, but it won't be a massive difference.

Main: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti, 16 GB 4400 MHz DDR4 Fedora 38 x86_64

Secondary: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Fedora 38 x86_64

Server: AMD Athlon PRO 3125GE, 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 ECC, TrueNAS Core 13.0-U5.1

Home Laptop: Intel Core i5-L16G7, 8 GB 4267 MHz LPDDR4x, Windows 11 Home 22H2 x86_64

Work Laptop: Intel Core i7-10510U, NVIDIA Quadro P520, 8 GB 2667 MHz DDR4, Windows 10 Pro 22H2 x86_64

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