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Since when was 8GB RAM, let alone 8GB VRAM, a problem? Are you running ML models, video editing or some special games?? Or some weird poorly-written thing like Windows OS?
Software is a gas, it expands to use all available resources.
I have 32GB of RAM, and run out occasionally. At the moment I have two CAD programs, thousands of pages of datasheets and reference manuals, an IDE, and ~50 browser tabs open. I don’t HAVE to have them all open at once, but it does save me a lot of time.
My next machine will have 128GB, and I expect that will run out of memory too.
Also, sometimes you need to use software that has a memory leak, so a bit of extra RAM gives you some more time before it crashes.
Photogrammetry can also get resource hungry.
Nowadays even at 1080p 8GB of Vram doesn’t cut it.
Doesn’t cut what? Web browsing? Watching videos? Playing new games?
Run new games at 144fps at maxed settings in native 4k, which as we all know is completely necessary and extremely distinguishable from 60fps at medium settings with upscaling.
Satisfactory took 10gb for whatever reason. Playing 1440p at 90fps
In university, they stopped giving out software licenses for personal machines in favor of letting students connect to virtual machines they hosted. They allocated 8GB of RAM which wasn’t horrible at the time, but they only allocated 4GB of storage. Only time I’ve ever seen that ratio.
Linux Mint runs pretty well on 8 gigs of ram on a T460.
The software industry show you quickly that 8GB, independent where, isn’t by far enough. Since HW programmed obsolence is out, since current PC last more than a Washing machine, they do it with min sys specs of their products. The times, where a 3D FPS was released in a single 96KB file is far away.
Still downloadable as Abandonware https://www.myabandonware.com/game/kkrieger-chapter-1-cl1
My first computer, an Atari 520ST, came standard with 196K of ROM and 512K of RAM. The OS (GEM) was on a dedicated chip. Everything was run off floppy disks.
I have 3GB of VRAM. 8 would be great!
I remember the OS running from an 51/4" cardboard Floppy
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