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Does Linux use less RAM? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by TRex91@feddit.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Games need more RAM, but prices are abysmal. Unfortunate, I know. But before you empty your wallet for an upgrade, what if the answer is switching to the penguin side? I ran two identical test benches in real-world workloads to find out if ditching Windows is the only memory upgrade you actually need.

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[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Short answer: yes, a bit, but it's unlikely to make the difference if you already need a graphical environment to run games.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

maybe, this video tested with 8GB and there was a difference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJEo6Kb6Rhg

but idk how trustworthy that channel is

similarly they did a test with 4GB of VRAM and some games did better on Linux than on Windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Y9MI_g-0U

especially in 1% lows

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah it's enough to make an appreciable difference in the right circumstances, but it's not going to miraculously take a rig from struggling to run a certain game to working smoothly.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Its actually made quite the diffrence because windows 11 uses 18GB of Ram to run BG3, where Linux Mint was able to do the same with only 12GB.

If you only have 16GB of RAM, this avoids having to upgrade your RAM.