8GB vs 16GB of RAM

[Top-Hat Meerkat]

Is there a noticeable difference between 8GB and 16GB of RAM for web browsing, and Photoshop?  

[WokeUp]

1 minute ago, GiGeorgiePie said:

Is there a noticeable difference between 8GB and 16GB of RAM for web browsing, and Photoshop?  

for photoshop maybe but no for web browsing 

[Apollo Refugio]

1 minute ago, GiGeorgiePie said:

Is there a noticeable difference between 8GB and 16GB of RAM for web browsing, and Photoshop?  

not much differnce for 8gb for web browsing, maybe some help for 16Gb for photoshop and video editing.

[elkenrod]

I remember the days....

 

"512 MB is more than enough"

 

"1GB of memory is enough"

 

"4GB is fine for any system"

 

"8GB is standard"

[suchamoneypit]

Well web browsing and Photoshop are completely different. Web browser, no, Photoshop, definitely.

[Oberon.Smite]

If you're using chrome and other memory intensive tasks, it will make a difference depending on the load. If you have like 60 tabs open at a time you should consider going to 16GB. However if you're using less than that than stay with 8. I'd recommend going for 16 because RAM is cheap right now (remember when 8GB of DDR3 was $80?). It'll give you headroom so you don't have to worry about it in the future. Anyways if you play games it's time to go for 16GB since games are starting to use more RAM.

[Houndz199]

Photoshop maybe, web browser not really, but with new triple A titles recommending 12 GB of ram it would be safe investment to get 16gb. 

[ARikozuM]

Unless you're a very heavy user, you're unlikely to notice as the page file will still be used for certain portions of the system.

 

That said, there are a few games that will run much better on 16GFB of RAM and others that won't run unless you HAVE 16GB of RAM.

[Prolly_dyin]

Yeah you won't see much difference unless your running both working with multiple huge files in Photoshop and have a bunch of tabs running in a web browser. You'll be a little snappier maybe in PS at least it felt like it to me but the actual difference was negligible. I actually opened up a project slightly under 300mb in PS CC and exported it. I was sitting at about 7GB usage with one tab open in Chrome. That was a stitched image in Photoshop consisting of around 10-15 shot so fairly large. 

[Shadow_Storm56]

one day itll be 4TB of ram min on any system.