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Intrinsic on 13 February 2019
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Pemalite said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Games are certainly using more than 8GB at highest settings at this point. I was entertaining his idea that developers might be okay working with just 8GB given they already do plenty with 5GB. But 16GB is a reasonable expectation for the 9th gen considering consoles launched with 8GB in 2013.

Yeah. 16GB seems to be the general consensus.
PC games are pushing over 8GB of system ram+8GB GPU Ram now... 16GB total and that's pretty mid-range... Many demanding games are seeing gains with 16GB of system Ram+8GB GPU (24GB total).

This is one f those areas where a console varies greatly from a PC. First off a consoles OS isn't anything like a PC OS. Secondly and more importantly the fragmented nature of general PC design means that there is a lot of redundancy. Just taking the GPU and CPU fr instance, their separate memory pools means there is a fair amount of data that sits in both pls of memory. Also the fact that both pls have different bandwidths.

A console with 16GB of RAM available for devs will do wonders.