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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.

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
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    2 months ago

    Just watched the vjdeo. It is absolute garbage. Their systems both had 32 GB of RAM and neither got anywhere near that. No mention of how they measured it so it is quite possible that they were counting file descriptors on Windows but not on Linux or vice versa.

    Sure, Windows was using almost twice as much RAM as Linux. But as long as you have the RAM, who cares? The real struggle begins when you need as much as possible but they didn’t show that at all. But they only got up to 17 GB on Windows and 11 GB on Linux. With 32 GB available on both.

    I’d love Gamer’s Nexus to do a similar video with actually robust and comparable testing methodology.