Recently, the memory has begun to reduce the price, and the upgrade memory has become a problem for many small partners, especially the player partners. In the end, how much memory must be upgraded, and what capacity to upgrade to is important. So, today we will take a look at the actual effect of the game under different memory configurations, I believe these tests can answer everyone's questions.
This test comes from overseas video up master Testing Games, by the way, B station up main FZeGuang and other up main will be part of his video as a translation introduction, interested partners can pay attention to it. This test uses the Ryzen™ 9 5900X+RTX 3080 platform, and the memory has several combinations of 4GB, 8GB (2×4GB), 12GB (4+8GB), 16GB (2×8GB), which should be a very common configuration method when installing and upgrading.
In order to reduce the interference of the graphics card, all of them use 1080P resolution and run with the highest image quality. What should be explained here is that 4GB of memory can be said to be directly eliminated by these games, although it can barely run some games, but in all games there is a "burst memory" situation, because it really can not support the basic amount of data required, CPU and graphics cards also have to slow down to wait, so the frame rate is extremely low, and even some games directly report errors, black screens.
If you look at the average frame rate, 8GB seems to be a good configuration, and 12GB, 16GB is no different. However, it should be noted that the graphics card graphics memory used in this test reaches 10GB, plus the use of 1080P, which is a relatively small set of screen data, so the game data does not appear "burst video memory", and the system memory does not need to help store screen data, so it is easier, if you want to play 2K, 4K games, or play the hardware killer game of Zero Dawn, it is not enough.
Another point that is more important for small partners who like high-speed games and e-sports games is the occasional memory shortage problem of 8GB of memory, which is not visible in the average frame rate of long-term tests, but it is exposed to the minimum frame rate. If you want the game to be more overall smooth, you will not suddenly get stuck at a critical moment, when playing the recent AAA masterpiece, high-end e-sports online games, 12GB of memory is still the entry demand.
There is also an interesting phenomenon here, in all the games in this test, the 4+8GB combination performed well, the frame rate was close to 16GB, and it did not have the problem of the minimum frame rate like the lower 8GB. Therefore, adding 8GB to the 4GB notebook with insufficient default configuration, or taking the 4GB of memory eliminated by the previous upgrade to play the residual heat, are all good choices in the near future, saving money and enough.