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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh that’s cool, didn’t see that. I have no idea why Valve didn’t mention that in their reveal, that’s a huge advantage over consoles.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    RAM being upgradeable is basically irrelevant for a fixed-GPU device.

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    • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      More RAM doesn’t just benefit the GPU, there’s plenty of games today that use more than 16GB of system RAM on their highest settings and that’s only gonna become more common in the future… Besides, with this being literally a Linux PC, there’s more ways it could make use of the extra RAM than just games.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t know what you’re on about, mate

        I’m pointing out that a game that needs 12GB of VRAM on its GPU doesn’t care if you have 128GB or 512GB of system RAM, because the GPU can’t use that RAM. You’re not going to have games that require 128GB of system memory that also work on an 8GB GPU.

        This isn’t controversial or hard to understand.

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