CGI-Quality said:
errorpwns said:
CGI-Quality said:
errorpwns said:
Do you people really expect the 720 and PS4 to have 8GB of memory? Oh wow haha. Most desktops don't have 8gb right now. You can game perfectly fine on 4gb even on Windows 7. 8Gb just adds more room for comfort. Heck 16gb of ram in a desktop has been shown to REDUCE fps in certain situations. When the desktop has too much memory than it needs. Higher speed memory > Amount usually. 4gb of high speed memory will go a long way over 8gb of slower memory. Of course there's a huge difference between 512mb and 2gb of memory. Next gen consoles will be fine with 2-3gb. Even 4 might be overkill. |
It has? Where can I see that?
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Well mileage will vary of course, but as of now there is no noticable difference between 8gb of ddr3, 12gb of ddr3, and 16gb of ddr3 at the same speed. Heck in some test 16gb has been shown to get a frame or two less. For gaming I'd rather have 8gb of 2133 instead of 16gb of 1600 or 1333. Since going from 1600 to 2133 makes a huge speed impact. Even if it is less overall memory. For gaming it just simply isn't required. All about bottlenecks. If you're working on 3d modeling and heavy particle testing, etc then you want 16gb of memory. Other than that not needed. Faster memory instead.
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No notable difference is believable. More than 2-4GB probably isn't required. However, areduction in performance with more RAM, is not something I've heard of nor seen.
For a guy like me who will be gaming on a rig with 32GB of RAM @ 1600MHz, I don't expect to see a loss in fps. In fact, the GPU and CPU combo will impact that much more than RAM (some place else I don't expect to be lacking), and in any case that I've seen, the extra RAM will only help. Even for threading and rendering (stuff I do as a game developer / graphic designer), that depends greatly on your CPU, with the GPU picking up of the slack for anti-aliasing and smoothing.
RAM will hardly, if ever, be an issue if there's more than needed. In a gaming console, I agree that 2-4GB is sufficient right now, though.
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Hmm, maybe I'm just having a foggy memory. None the less yeah consoles will get by on 2-4gb. I really wish more consoles had ram expansion like the N64 did. That was amazing of nintendo to add.
