You probably dont but 32gb ddr5 is minimum 200$ right now for the slowest.
utopiah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Genuine question here, for a “normal” computer user, say somebody who :
- browses the Web
- listen to music, play videos, etc
- sometimes play video games, even 2025 AAAs
- even code something of a normal size, let’s say up to Firefox size (which is huge)
… what does require more than say 32Go?
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
For normal use like that 16GB is generally just fine. Some games can use enough that you’ll need to close Firefox and other RAM hungry programs though.
As far as needing more than that, people who do heavy design work or edit videos and that kind of thing generally do. For example 32GB running Fusion in Davinci Resolve can be a bit limiting sometimes with higher resolution or 10 bit footage.
Dremor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For a normal user, 16G is still enough.
But for a power user like me, a Dev, with multiple IDE open, multiple browsers, a database manager with a dockerized DB, I’m basically at 96-98% RAM all the time. But even then, if you use a local AI, prepare to loose multiple Gig to it. I already used more than 30 Gig on one LLM (dolphin-mixtral 8x7B for the curious), when I tried testing one.
filister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t know but I am constantly hitting the RAM limit with 16Gb of RAM with around 20-30 open tabs and other apps, both on Linux and Windows
Qwel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Do you actually feel your computer slow down? I would guess your 20 unused tabs would be swapped out and the rest should run relatively fine
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
If by normal you average, they don’t even really need 16gb.
Creative work can gobble up ram, heavy ass multitasking does as well.
So it’s more in the digitally productive professional or hobbyist cases where you need such amounts as a person.
For development high amounts of rams can be useful for all sorts of stuff, it’s not just compiling, but also testing, though 32 is often enough.