RAM - 32gb or 64gb?

There are a lot of conflicting reports online about people’s performance. 32gb seems like it should have no issues, but many people have reported issues with 32 that go away with 64gb. What do you think? Any first-hand experience? I’ll be at 1440p on max settings.

Edit: My specs –
Legion 5 Pro laptop

Ryzen 7 6800H
3070 ti 150w
32 gb DDR5 4800mhz for now
NVMe SSD

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I’ve been running 16 GB 2166 Hz on Server Slam and I had no issue, my PC still had 2-3 GB to spare.

Now I’ve upgraded to 32 GB 2666 Hz and I’m confident it’ll be more than enough.

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You should be fine with 32GB. I have 64GB(2 x 32GB DDR5 5600 CL28) but only because I want to keep my ram in a 1 DPC configuration for higher speeds, and if I ever needed more than 32GB in the future I’d either need to go 2 DPC or buy a new 2 x 32GB kit to keep it 1 DPC anyways.

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32gb windows 11, had no issues at all.

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I have 64, but I really only got that because I run a lot of virtual images in networking lab environments. 32 is fine for gaming.

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I only have 16GB RAM and it worked perfectly for me on Ultra settings (with a RTX 3070 Ti card).

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my build…

i9 13900
rtx 4090
32 gigs of ram
running a 5120x1440 monitor
max settings

I had no issues with 32 gigs of ram

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32gb is fine. The common issue for some ppl was VRAM leak. If you had settings with high/ultra option, game used all available Vram which translated to stuttering and performance issues. GPUs with 8GB (3060ti 3070) affected by this. All in all if you have 32gb (ram) and 10+ GB (vram) ur gucci

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16gb of ram on max settings at 2k and the game ran flawlessly for me

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What graphics card ?

3080

Must be 20 chars

Lol I ran it flawlessly at 1440p with 16GB ram. GPU is 3060 TI

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You’ll likely never need 64 GB of RAM just playing games.

32 GB is more than enough.

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I am running 32gb, that is more than enough… I have like 9-10 chrome tabs up while playing aswell, those take around 6gb of ram. :beers:

Edit* Changed to MS Edge and now my browser only uses 2gb of ram!

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Times change, and games become bigger and beefier in their requirements.

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That’s why I was unsure, Im using a 3070ti 8gb - should have included that at the top.

32 GB my computer is five years auld and still runs games with no problem but I do need to start upgrading once I get my steam deck in August.

32gb windows 10, no issues.

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32GB is super overkill for this game.

But 32GB on Windows is kinda the sweet spot overall as I find on most systems it will float up to around 24GB usage normally when given unlimited memory, so 16GB is OK, but there’s some benefit to having 32. I would not bother with 64 unless you have some application that you know explicitly wants a crapload of memory for some reason, and this is going to just be stuff like big DBMS systems, high-end 3D rendering, etc. I.e. you’ll know if you need it.

But then if it’s cheap, and you have the disk space to spend on the matching hibernation file, then why not?

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It doesn’t ever seem to get past 18 if you happen to have a memory leak issue with your system versus D4, so I’d say 32 is perfectly fine.

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