**The Impact of Increased RAM on Gaming Performance**

When it comes to gaming performance, one of the most significant factors that can make a difference is the amount of RAM available in the system. In recent years, manufacturers have been introducing more and more powerful graphics cards, but what about the impact of increased RAM on gaming performance? In this article, we will delve into the world of RAM and explore how it affects gaming performance.

**Testing with Grand Theft Auto 5**

To put our hypothesis to the test, we decided to run a benchmark on Grand Theft Auto 5. We started by setting the game to its default settings and recording the results. However, as we soon discovered, running a game that requires large amounts of RAM can quickly drain the system's memory. "Oh okay that kind of kills the video memory," our narrator said, as they realized that the high-resolution graphics required to run the game smoothly were taking up all the available RAM.

To mitigate this issue, we decided to change the settings to a more suitable medium-high setting for the game. As we waited for the game to load again, our narrator explained that we would be testing a mixture of both high and very high settings to see how it affected performance. When we finally re-entered the game, everything seemed to be in order, but we noticed that the GPU usage was slightly higher than before.

**Testing with Witcher 3**

Next, we decided to test the impact of increased RAM on The Witcher 3. We set the game to its default settings and ran it once again, this time utilizing more than 4 GB of RAM. Our narrator explained that they were now utilizing 5 GB of RAM, which was a significant increase over our previous benchmark. However, as we saw when we ran the game for the first time, even with more RAM available, there didn't seem to be any noticeable improvement in performance.

"Even though we're utilizing more RAM this time around for The Witcher 3," our narrator said, "I don't know what to say about that. I'm not really sure how to explain it because we obviously saw that in Grand Theft Auto when increased the Ram uh the frames definitely got way better." It seems that the impact of increased RAM on performance is still a mystery.

**Testing with Overwatch**

To test our hypothesis further, we decided to run a benchmark on Overwatch. We set the game to its default settings and ran it once again, this time utilizing more than 4 GB of RAM. Our narrator explained that they were now utilizing 5 GB of RAM, which was an increase over their previous benchmark. When we ran the game for the first time, we saw a significant improvement in performance.

"We're getting like oh come on I pulled him and then I died all right so it dipped to 48 there but that's still definitely better than what we had last time," our narrator said. The average frame rate was now higher, with most frames hovering around the 50-60 mark. However, as our narrator noted, the game still fluctuated, and the minimum frame rate wasn't always consistent.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, our experiment shows that increased RAM can have a significant impact on gaming performance. In Grand Theft Auto 5, we saw a noticeable improvement in frames per second when utilizing more RAM. However, with The Witcher 3, there didn't seem to be any noticeable difference. On the other hand, Overwatch showed a significant improvement in performance when utilizing more RAM.

The take-home message from this experiment is that the impact of increased RAM on gaming performance is still not fully understood and can vary depending on the game being played. However, it's clear that having more RAM available can be beneficial for smooth gameplay, especially with games that require large amounts of memory to run smoothly. If you're in the market for a new graphics card or want to upgrade your existing system, consider investing in more RAM to get the best possible performance out of your game.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enand we're only getting about mid 40 frames per second oops I just ran over another player hey what's up everyone no here and if you recall from my $170 extreme OverWatch budget build I only opted to put four gigs of RAM into the system I had 8 gigs on hand but I wanted to only put half of it in to save an extra $10 and reason for this is because when you're trying to push the price down it gets a lot harder and you have to start scraping the bottom of the B Barrow anywhere you can and you see a lot on the either Tech forums or like PC gaming articles or just anywhere around the internet that a lot of people have come to the consensus that for gaming 4 gigs of RAM is all you need for the bare minimum if you're not doing other tasks uh that require more RAM usage if you're not running a lot of things in the background and if you're only gaming you only need four gigs is what they say but I'm starting to see that that's not the case anymore with modern day games I'm starting to see games uh eat up a lot more than just 4 G of ram in the original gameplay and benchmarks I only tested The Witcher 3 in OverWatch because I knew that the system would still perform relatively well playing them with only 4 gigs and a lot of people have been asking me hey can you test that against Grand Theft Auto so we're going to do that in this video I'm going to test it with the 4 gigs of RAM and you're going to see that the performance is really really bad but then I'm going to add the additional 4 gigs to bring it up to 8 gigs and you're going to see what the difference is going to be between them and since I'm going to have the additional RAM in the system anyways I'm I'm going to also go back and test The Witcher 3 and OverWatch to see if the ram helps out there this is going to be a pretty gameplay and test heavy video so let's get right into it so the worst part about Grand Theft Auto online has to be the loading before playing this game takes forever to load and uh especially if you're not on a solid state drive like on my main computer it's fine because I always put Grand Theft Auto on the solid state drive but uh for spinning hard drive for like all these budget builds every time you load the game up it takes forever all right so let's look at the system monitoring on the top left there so the ram is being fully utilized uh the CPU is running at almost full capacity and uh the GPU is not doing anything yet which makes sense cuz we're in a loading screen all right so we're in game now and let's look at the graphic settings to see what the default is set at so let see no msaa we'll turn vsync off to see if we can even try to get over 60 frames per second not sure if that's going to happen um so population density so those are all pretty high and then everything else is kind of high so this is pretty much High settings so in the garage the Ram's already uh maxed out CPU is maxed out and we're getting in here wow we're getting getting almost 70 frames per second uh okay and there's some stutter right there so let's see how we do when we go out into the main streets all right we're outside so okay so we are getting a fluctuation anywhere between uh almost zero frames per second and uh anyway up to 40 yeah this is pretty bad when I tested all the other systems with like 8 gigs and 16 gigs the RAM usage was always like 6 to S uh so the four is really struggling right now and you can see that with uh how jittery it is yeah the CPU and GPU aren't even at Max load right now but the RAM is and this is is pretty bad so I would definitely deem this as unplayable because if you're playing online or doing anything um you're not going to have a good time so let's shut the system down and add in the extra RAM and see how that uh changes the performance so here's the additional stick of Ram uh putting this in will bring it to a total of 8 GB so I'm going to have to add $10 to the total price but that only brings it up to $180 but we're going to see how this improves the system if I can get this in here because I have this horrible Cable Management going right across the motherboard and come on there we go we're already utilizing 5 1 12 gigs of RAM uh in the loading screen uh everything else is looking good all right so we're in game uh let's look at the settings just to make sure we have everything the same so 1080p MSA off population density all that stuff is either maxed out or pretty high and everything else is on high all right so we're in the garage and we're already utilizing almost 6 and2 gigs of RAM um CPU is fully loaded and GPU is fluctuating but we're getting 70 frames per second in the garage so let's see what we get when we're outside all right and it's raining drift time okay so CPU is at Max load we're almost at 7 GB of RAM usage oh man uh so we're fluctuating anywhere between 40 to 50 all right so we just crossed into 7 gigs of RAM usage CPU is at full load pretty consistently and the GPU is surprisingly uh only a half load we're playing Grand Theft R online which is considered a modern AAA title on high settings on a computer that costs $180 I'm definitely happy with these results all right so let's go on foot and see if the frame okay uh I should have waited for the car to stop but now that we're on foot um we're in the 70s uh so it's kind of fluctuating between 60 mid 60 and70s let's blow stuff up to see if the explosions will cause any frame drops okay I can't aim nope I'm about to blow up my own car oh there we go so dip to 50 okay the GPU is it looks like it could be worked a bit more so let's try turning up the settings and seeing what we get doing that we're going to max out population variety and we're going to change oh okay that kind of kills the video memory we're going to change all these to very high we're going to have a mixture between high and very high settings so now we got to wait for it to load again but let's see what how we do all right we're back in game everything stayed the same yep very high on most of them okay so somewhere between high and probably borderline very high so all right look at the GPU usage there we go it's higher than earlier so that's what we want um actually I want to take a different car but let's see how we do with the higher settings all right so oh man okay GPU usage is slightly higher um RAM usage is approaching 7 GB CPU is under full load and we're only getting about mid 40 frames per second oops I just ran over another player um yeah we're dropping to like 30 mid-30 frames per second and honestly I don't notice this looking that much nicer I personally like you know anywhere from medium high to high uh graphic settings anything above that you're seeing this uh frame drop all right we'll just end the Grand Theft Auto 5 Benchmark here because uh I got the results that I wanted to uh for the high settings so let's revisit uh Witcher 3 and OverWatch because now we have 8 GB of RAM in the system all right so we're in Witcher 3 and um even in the title screen we're already using more than 4 GB of RAM so I'm going to set it to the same uh option settings as what we did last time so it was medium on graphics and for postprocessing it was low so if you remember the uh frames we were getting was 35 to 40 frames per second on these settings so let's see what the a GB of RAM does here so we're utilizing 5 1 12 gigs of RAM we're in the mid 30s even though we're utilizing more RAM it doesn't look like we've gained any frames so we're floating around the 40s come and kill these guys guys all right well looks like that makes no difference we're getting still around 35 to 40 frames per second with 8 GB Ram even though we're using more than we did before um I don't know what to say about that I'm not really sure how to explain this because we obviously saw that in Grand Theft Auto when increased the Ram uh the frames definitely got way better uh we're definitely utilizing more RAM this time around for The Witcher 3 so uh I honestly don't know I don't know everything guys so if anyone actually knows the answer to that please leave that in the comment section below so that we can all learn something here but all right let's check out OverWatch ooh Tracer um if you remember from last time what we had for the options was basically High settings and what we got was around 40 to 60 frames per second depending depending on how much action there was on the screen like uh when there was tons of people and a lot of shooting going on it was down to 40 but we got anywhere up to 60 so we'll see how we do now also note that I'm not running anything else in the background I'm just playing these games so this is how much basically the game is using so we're not really dipping lower than basically 50 I mean we're getting like oh come on I pulled him and then I died all right so it dipped to 48 there but that's still definitely better than what we had last time so we're staying pretty much at a constant 50 or higher FPS oh come on so it's kind of hard to tell because the game still definitely fluctuates but um I'd say that on average the FPS is higher uh it's for the most part 50 to 60 FPS dang we lost all right so um as you can see the frame rate was basically uh better in terms of the minimum we didn't really go under 50 frames per second too much uh so the average was definitely better and I guess the take home message from this is that the difference in price between 8 GB and 4 GB isn't that much like in this case it was $10 and it was definitely worth the $10 to get the 8 gigs just to uh play it safe uh you saw improvements in Grand Theft Auto you didn't see an improvement in Witcher 3 which still puzzles me but in OverWatch you saw an overall average uh FPS increased as well as the minimum also got better um if you enjoyed the video then please leave a like and if you haven't subbed yet then please do so if you enjoy the content uh I'll just see you in the next one I'm going to get back to playing more OverWatch byeand we're only getting about mid 40 frames per second oops I just ran over another player hey what's up everyone no here and if you recall from my $170 extreme OverWatch budget build I only opted to put four gigs of RAM into the system I had 8 gigs on hand but I wanted to only put half of it in to save an extra $10 and reason for this is because when you're trying to push the price down it gets a lot harder and you have to start scraping the bottom of the B Barrow anywhere you can and you see a lot on the either Tech forums or like PC gaming articles or just anywhere around the internet that a lot of people have come to the consensus that for gaming 4 gigs of RAM is all you need for the bare minimum if you're not doing other tasks uh that require more RAM usage if you're not running a lot of things in the background and if you're only gaming you only need four gigs is what they say but I'm starting to see that that's not the case anymore with modern day games I'm starting to see games uh eat up a lot more than just 4 G of ram in the original gameplay and benchmarks I only tested The Witcher 3 in OverWatch because I knew that the system would still perform relatively well playing them with only 4 gigs and a lot of people have been asking me hey can you test that against Grand Theft Auto so we're going to do that in this video I'm going to test it with the 4 gigs of RAM and you're going to see that the performance is really really bad but then I'm going to add the additional 4 gigs to bring it up to 8 gigs and you're going to see what the difference is going to be between them and since I'm going to have the additional RAM in the system anyways I'm I'm going to also go back and test The Witcher 3 and OverWatch to see if the ram helps out there this is going to be a pretty gameplay and test heavy video so let's get right into it so the worst part about Grand Theft Auto online has to be the loading before playing this game takes forever to load and uh especially if you're not on a solid state drive like on my main computer it's fine because I always put Grand Theft Auto on the solid state drive but uh for spinning hard drive for like all these budget builds every time you load the game up it takes forever all right so let's look at the system monitoring on the top left there so the ram is being fully utilized uh the CPU is running at almost full capacity and uh the GPU is not doing anything yet which makes sense cuz we're in a loading screen all right so we're in game now and let's look at the graphic settings to see what the default is set at so let see no msaa we'll turn vsync off to see if we can even try to get over 60 frames per second not sure if that's going to happen um so population density so those are all pretty high and then everything else is kind of high so this is pretty much High settings so in the garage the Ram's already uh maxed out CPU is maxed out and we're getting in here wow we're getting getting almost 70 frames per second uh okay and there's some stutter right there so let's see how we do when we go out into the main streets all right we're outside so okay so we are getting a fluctuation anywhere between uh almost zero frames per second and uh anyway up to 40 yeah this is pretty bad when I tested all the other systems with like 8 gigs and 16 gigs the RAM usage was always like 6 to S uh so the four is really struggling right now and you can see that with uh how jittery it is yeah the CPU and GPU aren't even at Max load right now but the RAM is and this is is pretty bad so I would definitely deem this as unplayable because if you're playing online or doing anything um you're not going to have a good time so let's shut the system down and add in the extra RAM and see how that uh changes the performance so here's the additional stick of Ram uh putting this in will bring it to a total of 8 GB so I'm going to have to add $10 to the total price but that only brings it up to $180 but we're going to see how this improves the system if I can get this in here because I have this horrible Cable Management going right across the motherboard and come on there we go we're already utilizing 5 1 12 gigs of RAM uh in the loading screen uh everything else is looking good all right so we're in game uh let's look at the settings just to make sure we have everything the same so 1080p MSA off population density all that stuff is either maxed out or pretty high and everything else is on high all right so we're in the garage and we're already utilizing almost 6 and2 gigs of RAM um CPU is fully loaded and GPU is fluctuating but we're getting 70 frames per second in the garage so let's see what we get when we're outside all right and it's raining drift time okay so CPU is at Max load we're almost at 7 GB of RAM usage oh man uh so we're fluctuating anywhere between 40 to 50 all right so we just crossed into 7 gigs of RAM usage CPU is at full load pretty consistently and the GPU is surprisingly uh only a half load we're playing Grand Theft R online which is considered a modern AAA title on high settings on a computer that costs $180 I'm definitely happy with these results all right so let's go on foot and see if the frame okay uh I should have waited for the car to stop but now that we're on foot um we're in the 70s uh so it's kind of fluctuating between 60 mid 60 and70s let's blow stuff up to see if the explosions will cause any frame drops okay I can't aim nope I'm about to blow up my own car oh there we go so dip to 50 okay the GPU is it looks like it could be worked a bit more so let's try turning up the settings and seeing what we get doing that we're going to max out population variety and we're going to change oh okay that kind of kills the video memory we're going to change all these to very high we're going to have a mixture between high and very high settings so now we got to wait for it to load again but let's see what how we do all right we're back in game everything stayed the same yep very high on most of them okay so somewhere between high and probably borderline very high so all right look at the GPU usage there we go it's higher than earlier so that's what we want um actually I want to take a different car but let's see how we do with the higher settings all right so oh man okay GPU usage is slightly higher um RAM usage is approaching 7 GB CPU is under full load and we're only getting about mid 40 frames per second oops I just ran over another player um yeah we're dropping to like 30 mid-30 frames per second and honestly I don't notice this looking that much nicer I personally like you know anywhere from medium high to high uh graphic settings anything above that you're seeing this uh frame drop all right we'll just end the Grand Theft Auto 5 Benchmark here because uh I got the results that I wanted to uh for the high settings so let's revisit uh Witcher 3 and OverWatch because now we have 8 GB of RAM in the system all right so we're in Witcher 3 and um even in the title screen we're already using more than 4 GB of RAM so I'm going to set it to the same uh option settings as what we did last time so it was medium on graphics and for postprocessing it was low so if you remember the uh frames we were getting was 35 to 40 frames per second on these settings so let's see what the a GB of RAM does here so we're utilizing 5 1 12 gigs of RAM we're in the mid 30s even though we're utilizing more RAM it doesn't look like we've gained any frames so we're floating around the 40s come and kill these guys guys all right well looks like that makes no difference we're getting still around 35 to 40 frames per second with 8 GB Ram even though we're using more than we did before um I don't know what to say about that I'm not really sure how to explain this because we obviously saw that in Grand Theft Auto when increased the Ram uh the frames definitely got way better uh we're definitely utilizing more RAM this time around for The Witcher 3 so uh I honestly don't know I don't know everything guys so if anyone actually knows the answer to that please leave that in the comment section below so that we can all learn something here but all right let's check out OverWatch ooh Tracer um if you remember from last time what we had for the options was basically High settings and what we got was around 40 to 60 frames per second depending depending on how much action there was on the screen like uh when there was tons of people and a lot of shooting going on it was down to 40 but we got anywhere up to 60 so we'll see how we do now also note that I'm not running anything else in the background I'm just playing these games so this is how much basically the game is using so we're not really dipping lower than basically 50 I mean we're getting like oh come on I pulled him and then I died all right so it dipped to 48 there but that's still definitely better than what we had last time so we're staying pretty much at a constant 50 or higher FPS oh come on so it's kind of hard to tell because the game still definitely fluctuates but um I'd say that on average the FPS is higher uh it's for the most part 50 to 60 FPS dang we lost all right so um as you can see the frame rate was basically uh better in terms of the minimum we didn't really go under 50 frames per second too much uh so the average was definitely better and I guess the take home message from this is that the difference in price between 8 GB and 4 GB isn't that much like in this case it was $10 and it was definitely worth the $10 to get the 8 gigs just to uh play it safe uh you saw improvements in Grand Theft Auto you didn't see an improvement in Witcher 3 which still puzzles me but in OverWatch you saw an overall average uh FPS increased as well as the minimum also got better um if you enjoyed the video then please leave a like and if you haven't subbed yet then please do so if you enjoy the content uh I'll just see you in the next one I'm going to get back to playing more OverWatch bye\n"