Are games likely to recommend more than 8GB or ram in the next 3 years?

Eran Mayshar · Mar 19, 2014

I've been using 4GB of ram for 2 years now and so far no game seems to suffer with it. Maybe if I mod some of the more demanding ones they might gain some from using 8GB but so far I've not noticed it. I'm thinking that with the new generation of games coming out I'm going to start to require more. Would 8 do me for the next 3 years? I don't want to have to upgrade again especially as DDR3 is coming to an end. I'd rather not fork out for 16GB if I don't have to with prices being as they are now.

Please advise.

matt798 · Mar 19, 2014

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231544 65$
should be pretty good for the price

Eran Mayshar · Mar 19, 2014

Thanks for the link. However that still doesn't tell me if I will need more than 8 in the next 3 years?

Tommy154 · Mar 20, 2014

RAM doesn't affect games as much as you think. Unless you're going to be running other programs will playing games you'll be fine with 8gb for a while. Use extra money to get a better GPU, because 99/100 times that's what really matters when it comes to video games

matt798 · Mar 20, 2014

the advantage of having 2 sticks of ram is that the system will reserve 1 stick for the system and the other for programs.

some memory manufactures have urged toms hardware in performance testing to use 4 2gb sticks.

so it can said that 2 4gb sticks is needed for best performance and stability overtime even if 2gb never get used 99.8% of the time but having that extra usage at hand to the average consumer allows for a performance standard to be set.
currently pc3 drr3 1600mhz cas 9

cdrkf · Apr 3, 2014

8gb of ram is needed by some games. Depends on what you're playing.

Some of the new games coming out such as Planetary Annihilation (a new RTS title) likes as much ram as you can give it (more ram = bigger maps essentially). Also things like Star Citizen are likely to be ram hungry.

I think the main point is the new consoles both have 8gb of ram- so new console ports are also likely going to want that bit more moving forward. I think part of the reason games haven't needed more ram recently is that most big titles had to work on the old consoles which had very little compared to a decent gaming PC.

I think given the specs of the new consoles 8gb looks like the sweet spot moving forward.

Tradesman1 · Apr 3, 2014

matt798 :

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Sorry but No, A) the system doesn't reserve 1 stick of DRAM for itself and B) using 4x2GB sticks is more stress on the MC (memory controller) than two sticks, so you don't want to add unneeded stress.

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To the original question, it will be up to the developers - 3 years from now (or even sooner) I'm guessing 16GB will be the entry level for desktops, just a couple years ago everyone was saying 4GB is more than anyone will use, 2 years before that they were saying the same about 2GB and with DDR4 on the horizon, think 16GB will soon be the starting point, plus as BF4 has shown, they are starting to utilize DRAM more and more in games

matt798 · Apr 13, 2014

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