Great video covering issues with 8GB.

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    1 year ago

    It also depends on the version and power of your RAM. DDR5 > DDR4 > DDR3.

    Power levels in mhz: DDR5 5200 mhz

    LPDDR5 6400 mhz

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      1 year ago

      Not every workload needs fast RAM. I was absolutely fine at my previous job with 16 GB of DDR3-1600, and that’s for professional software development. The same PC had 8 GB before and was barely usable, so I had to upgrade.

      And if you don’t have enough RAM, it doesn’t really matter how fast it is, as you’ll be bottlenecked by swapping, which is limited by SSD speed. If anything, a faster SSD could help, not faster RAM, though trying to compensate with SSD speed for lack of RAM is kind of crazy.