My laptop is old - it is a 6th gen Skylake Xeon i7 with 4 physical cores and hyperthreading, nVidia Quattro discrete graphics chip, NVMe drive, 4K display, thunderbolt, and only 16 GB of RAM. I suspect it is time to replace this old laptop of my mine. I prefer workstation laptops over consumer grade laptops which does affect the price.
Perfect video! A lot of people think 5 minutes saved isn't a big deal. Its not, for rendering a 12 minute video that is. Try rendering a 4 hour long 4K video which I do a lot. Thats 240 minutes instead of 12. So 5 minutes saved turns into almost 2 hours saved rendering for me. It's totally worth the extra $150 to go 64gb.
I did the math during lockdown. Upgrading to 64gb ram, 2tb M.2 x 2 and 4tb SSD paid for itself in less than a week 🤷♂️ Total no brainer if your pc (or in my case laptop) is your factory 👌
@@hesperhurt My computer is not my "factory" but I still went that way because it's rather my daily hobby, upscaling and design projects. I was once using my old laptop instead, and photoshop caused it to BSOD multiple times, so I can say spending more money may not only save time but save your work itself too. It's no brainer indeed.
Yup. And on top of that the ability to work on something else while rendering rocks. Nothing sucks like having your whole pc unusable because of a render. That's even more time lost.
I haven't had any issues with Ram in Premiere Pro when using 32gb of RAM, but I see 100% usage in After Effects, so I may be upgrading to 64gb of RAM. My advice at this time, would be to upgrade to at least 64gb of RAM for 4K, to anyone building an editing PC at this time if they plan on using Adobe After Effects....
Very interesting, thanks for the review. I have 64GB on my system but premiere pro ends up using about 50GB. That usually happens when I'm using warp stabilizer on my 4k videos.
I've been editing my videos on 16gb for a year and it's been so slow, I upgraded my cpu (3600>3700x) and it made almost no difference. I was using 14-15gb ram so I thought I had enough, but after upgrading to 32gb it's made a HUGE difference in the preview/editing render, it saves SO much time (and pain) being able to edit quickly without the lag. Just a basic video I'm already using 20gb, so on 16gb it must have been using my nvme and hdd to compensate. Thanks for making it clear, this video pretty much convinced me to try it.
@@theNH I was editing in 1080p, 1440p and even 2160x1080. The ram definitely helps, I'm still always above 16gb even doing basic stuff, it's a cheap but very helpful upgrade.
@@StefanMalloch I would like to see more in lightroom. The time it takes to generate previews, how responsive are the sliders, how fast you can go through edited images. And maybe multitasking during export, because mine became really laggy when exporting, with 16 gb ddr4 and a 6 core i7. It pretty much maxes my 16 gb. Thanks!
@@PioSoesetio308 you are stupid for expecting a thumbnail to be even be related to the thumbnail and thinking the uploader gives a dang as long as he got the precious ad revenue.
Inconsistent test! 16GB RAM you tested with open browser in background meanwhile 32GB with no open browser. In a 16GB test just before you started exporting that file we see that 6.9 GB were already used whereas in a 32GB we don't know how much RAM were occupied before a test.
@@GuilhermeOliveira0 While Chrome might have affected the test, the "running time" did not. Because of the power states modern PCs use, the running time is not rest if you just shut the PC down; the running time keeps going. It only resets if you either restart the PC, or disconnect it from power, which he did to swap out the RAM.
Honestly im upgrading from 16gb to 64, 16 is beginning to crash some heavy recourse games. reason im not getting 32 is if im gonna spend a premium, im going to future-proof for a few years down the line and ive been thinking of learning how to edit down the line anyway like after effects and premiere pro. So its a reason for me to invest
Same here, I'm starting to see requirements pop up for things like Flight Simulator that want 32gb for recommended. Which means it's time to go 64gb for a few years of future proofing, besides, memory is a LOT cheaper than it was even a year ago. Spending an extra $150 is small peanuts for peace of mind.
Hey man, great video! I hope you'd allow me to correct something you've said at about 5:20 - that less sticks of RAM is best for performance. It’s quite the opposite! Since most motherboards support dual channel and dual rank, it is the most optimal to use at least 2 sticks (for dual channel) and best to use 4 (double dual channel equals dual channel at dual (or even quad) rank). Dual or quad rank is better than single rank because it allows for greater bits/second rate between ram, motherboard and processor. So 4 single rank RAM sticks of 8gb is actually 32gb in dual channel and dual rank, while one single stick of 32gb is in single channel and possibly single rank (some 32gb sticks are dual rank). I don't know if I was able to explain it properly, but there are plenty of videos on youtube about it. Cheers!
Perfect timing. Been rocking 16GB, but will be upgrading to 32GB since I am also doing a big CPU upgrade as well. Hope this smooths out a lot of my editing
@@dxture.3365 Depends on what you are doing if you want to overclock the cpu you will be going with the 9700k or if you need that ram speed and not overclocking the cpu go for the other one
@@sahilgupta6125(you might have to ask the youtube author and not me) I'm not animating anything, just working with very large PSD files and found out 64GB is actually beneficial on the amount of layers I use.
6:07 lol wow rly? You my hero, i didnt know that. I can tell the same without a test, witout any Videos. 16gb is ok, 32gb is better. But 64gb is the best of the 3. Looooooool.
@@keagannelka1456 red and black (most common in cheap ugly gaming laptops) is probably even worse than full RGB, which is too played out already. Plus ur losing a lot of FPS by only having red lights
Im sorry, but the thing is, we cant actually know if the ram meet our requirements with export/render times. Im fine with waiting to export, what I need to know is how much ram do I need to put how many lightroom brushes for example, around how many "layers" in a given image, of a given size? Same thing for photoshop. Am I alone here? The flow of the editing is most important.
Thanks for making this video. This is exactly what I was looking for in regards to benchmark speeds, not the usually videos I kept finding (comparing FPS in video games). IMHO, buying 128GB of ram is a more worthwhile upgrade than paying the overblown price for a new GPU. It's almost ironic how the price of RAM and the price of video cards flip flopped. Video cards _used_ to be affordable.
I think what this video missed out on is the multitasking abilities. I think that is waaay more important than rendering times, and this is what is severely limited at 16Gb. If you want to create a vector object in Illustrator, move it over to After Effects to animate it and then put it into Premiere while not constantly closing those programs, I think 16 Gb will start to produce lag.
I'm at 16GB (8x2). When making top 10 UA-cam videos for clients, I open up my video editor with photoshop and chrome web browser with about 5 - 8 tabs. Been on the fence with going 32GB. Think its worth it with the workload I mentioned? don't know if 3 minutes faster is really worth it.
depends on your cpu as well. Your cpu/gpu will also affect render speeds. Hes showing this bc the CPU is a viable budget 8c cpu, and the ram is the pure justification for the change in outcome. Hes just offering aspects to why a person would spend more if its worth it to them. Or if you have multiple work loads. Ram can be a major limiting factor as well as the program and how it caters to your cpus single/multicore aspects
2:22 No ALL THE TESTS ARE NOT THE SAME! you are not using a 12 minute file THE FIRST 2 TESTS ARE A 46 MINUTE FILE AND THE LAST IS A 1hr LONG FILE! If you are going to benchmark something the details are important.
You need at least 16 if you want to open premiere, chrome and spotify and if you want to open premiere chrome spotify after effects and media encoder at the same time then you should go with 32
@@sahilgupta6125 16gb is too limiting for editing,,, I always have 2 browsers open with over 50tabs in them & while editing ram usage is always above 16gb, recently did 4k120fps video & ram usage would go above 40gb at times
Just a quick question, did you switch how many ram stick in each configuration. For example, did you get a 4x16gb kit and start with one 16gb stick, then 2x16gb (32gb) for the 32gb test? Because the performance probably actually comes from the dual channel nature, and more so, the quad channel. As a result, the last statement about the computer having an easier time accessing fewer ram stick is false, dual channel doubles the memory bandwidth that the CPU can access and quad channel doubles that again, not saying that you will get twice the performance, but still, the performance that is dependent on the ram speed will be increased. xD Further more, the ram sticks themselves need to actually process some things too, and having more sticks means that the "searching" load can be shared between more ram sticks. I would recommend two sticks of ram, 2x16gb for instance, then you will be taking advantage of dual channel, assuming you read the motherboard manual and put the ram sticks in the right slots. The main reason I would recommend two rams stick instead of the full four is that you might want to upgrade how much ram you have and if you get a full 4 sticks you'll have to buy all new ram, because mixing brands, speeds, and sizes is not recommended. Thanks for reading if you did! --Wolfgang.
4 sticks are quad channel. Dual channel are 2 sticks. You are talking about ranks. Its the best to have 4 ranks active and that could be achieved by 4 single-ranked sticks (most of 8GB and lower capacity sticks are single-ranked) or by two 16GB dual-ranked sticks (most of 16GB and higher capacity sticks are dual-ranked). YOu dont want to have 4x dual-ranked sticks because then you have 8 active ranks which is slower.
For people running hypervisors, get as much as you can. You will be thankful that you can have 3-4 different environment where you can simultaneously tweak to see system changes or to make other observations, work load.
Many modern CPUs pack 2 memory controllers vs 1 just 2 years ago. 1 memory controller dedicated for each channel. What this means nowadays is that in fact packing 4 sticks is actually better than 2 sticks for the same amount of ram because you would be making use of the expanded architecture to access all the sticks.
More RAM will gives you (0:48) . Note: multitask mayebe it means: while you prepare the frames in premiere - you can edit some images and sounds for the video edition you're working on. it doesn't mean that's the way to work, because you have the script/screen play, checklist of photos and audios: working audio in the morning, photo images and video in afternoon, crop and paste videos in the night. working all that in the same session requires more RAM and .... %$&\*
Im always amazed how cheap Ram is compared to Apples prices 😆 I work as a C# and Java developer and 32 GB is enough However I go with 64GB Ram because sometimes I run some VMs and just to have some head room 64GB is like 300€ here .. so it’s quite cheap considering I make money with this machine
You should have actually ran some tests in Photoshop and Lightroom, like you said in the beginning. Watched the whole video just to find out more RAM is better for an application I don't use...
There are many articles and videos now that state the opposite... that 4 sticks of RAM yields better performance (unless your overclocking - harder to overclock 4 sticks than 2). But you have to have 4 for the full RGB effect. RGB = > FPS
I have 16gb ram and I struggle with Photoshop when I have multiple projects open along with Google Chrome. Chrome eats my memory but I always have to have it open. Getting more than 16gb is definitely the way to go
Watched it and upgraded ram from 16gb 2666mhz to 3200mhz 64gb. Worth it? Yes , less crashing. Used to render 4K videos and the ram almost used up to 90% of 16gb and it might not be a single run successful render. After upgrading, I was surprised it used almost up to 39% of 64gb for rendering but upside is you can do more things than just wait for rendering to be done instead.
*I would add the point that if you have two, or multiples of two, memory modules/sticks, and they are matched in capacity, speed, and latency, and also if your computer and its bios will allow it, to make sure that you are running in, "Dual Channel", memory mode, as that will increase the ram's read and write speeds from slightly to dramatically, depending on the system configuration and what applications you are running...*
@@disclaimer6872 ill say it really depends... I'm working as a professional digital artist. I constantly fill up 32g in only use photoshop alone. just had 200+ layers/ mattes/ effects/ all in 6k resolutions and 16bit colour profile. 32 it just not enough, due to still need to open several windows and web browsers tabs for references.
Angra Pan wtf.....6k and 200+ layers and 16 bit color profile? Lol ofc for someone who is like you 32 gb of ram won't be enough...but for gamers like me and most of the pc users 16gb will be just enough
It's after effects and blender which consumes most ram, you should have consider those softwares and also rendering is not the problem, it's the preview in it, which slows down the process.
this is a late comment, but could you do a follow up with some vfx programs running? I'm thinking about multitasking after effects, premiere, and maybe some blender, and perhaps gaming and streaming at the same time. Im on the fence with 64gb and 128gb... 128 sounds overkill but if i prioritize everything 32gb of ram then it doesn't seem that bad.
My machine has 32GB RAM and there have been a few times I thought about upgrading to 64GB but later dropped the idea. My machine is 6 years old and I don't see the point to spend any money for this dinosaur. When I get my next computer I definitely will put 64GB RAM in.
I've been on 16GB for 5 years now on a 980ti i7-4790k. Served me well with video editing and photoshopping ever since. But this could be the year... oh forgot I lost my job due to covid. Perhaps next year? Hehehe
Hi I’ve just purchased a new 27” iMac which is on d way. 8GB as standard but I’ve purchased 2x16GB memory to add... Is it possible to buy one 32GB card or even a 64GB to go into one card slot ? Thank you
Not just video editors need more ram, those who run muliple virtual machines on their system also need more Ram. Some software developers need atleast 32gb ram. I run multiple virtual machines and I am barely making it with 32GB RAM.
Well. I think your wrong about the gfx need. Upgrading my gfx made a substantial difference to my render times. Also, you need enough vram to not have vram buffering inside the editor
just upgraded to 32gb i was using 16gb before and i could see the differences right away i can run tasks while gaming not having to bother closing tabs tbh
I just got an HP Victus for Christmas and it came with 8gb ram so I decided to upgrade to 32GB and I couldn't be any happier the games I play run hella smooth and the FPS is great no crashes or issues whatsoever. To me 32 GB is better I don't need to go any higher than that.
I have a few questions. Why are ou upscaling the output to 4k and using software rendering instead hardware rendering since you have a gtx 1080? great video btw
@@southvizionsThanks, I'm Using Ryzen5 3600X. If you will have more ram rather than lower latency in same price, is it better? Cant decide between "2x8 16gb 3600Mhz CL16" or "2x16 32gb 3600Mhz CL18"
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How much RAM are you packing?
32gb ftw!
My laptop is old - it is a 6th gen Skylake Xeon i7 with 4 physical cores and hyperthreading, nVidia Quattro discrete graphics chip, NVMe drive, 4K display, thunderbolt, and only 16 GB of RAM. I suspect it is time to replace this old laptop of my mine. I prefer workstation laptops over consumer grade laptops which does affect the price.
16gb. But upgrading to 32 for premiere and after effects.
24GB
64GB paired with a Ryzen 9 3900X
64gb is probably the best for having 2 tabs on google chrome opened
What if you want 4?
I have 64 gb ram very fast but just 32 gb ram it's correct !!
@@GoldenSpike300 you have to oc 64gb ram to 4000mhz cl18 at least or it will crash
This actually made me laugh out loud :D facts bro
wonder why google isn't fixing this issue...
My rule of thumb is always buy as much RAM as you can without raising suspicion from the spouse. :)
OMG my thoughts exactly. Kudos
Been snuggling in some ram for the past four months. Almost done with my 32gigs. Take care, folks!
glad i never had to hide, my spouse told me that it’s always the memory that counts
64gb it is then!!
My wife told me I could spend half the cost of her wedding ring on a new pc, I can't even run doom 😢
There no thing such as so much RAM. There is only a question which is "How much RAM can you buy?".
That's the real thing
1tb of ram what would that be like?
aynen abi
@@The101Point1 linus tech tips did a video on 2 terabytes of ram
What if your mother board doesn't support?
Perfect video! A lot of people think 5 minutes saved isn't a big deal. Its not, for rendering a 12 minute video that is. Try rendering a 4 hour long 4K video which I do a lot. Thats 240 minutes instead of 12. So 5 minutes saved turns into almost 2 hours saved rendering for me. It's totally worth the extra $150 to go 64gb.
I did the math during lockdown. Upgrading to 64gb ram, 2tb M.2 x 2 and 4tb SSD paid for itself in less than a week 🤷♂️ Total no brainer if your pc (or in my case laptop) is your factory 👌
@@hesperhurt My computer is not my "factory" but I still went that way because it's rather my daily hobby, upscaling and design projects.
I was once using my old laptop instead, and photoshop caused it to BSOD multiple times, so I can say spending more money may not only save time but save your work itself too.
It's no brainer indeed.
Yup. And on top of that the ability to work on something else while rendering rocks. Nothing sucks like having your whole pc unusable because of a render. That's even more time lost.
Haa u try using nvidia render way?
I haven't had any issues with Ram in Premiere Pro when using 32gb of RAM, but I see 100% usage in After Effects, so I may be upgrading to 64gb of RAM. My advice at this time, would be to upgrade to at least 64gb of RAM for 4K, to anyone building an editing PC at this time if they plan on using Adobe After Effects....
@@ExtractedSamplesG210nice
I'll just download 64gb of RAM
Link please?
Me too
carson0320000
Can i download corsair dominator
Can i also download some vram
Very interesting, thanks for the review. I have 64GB on my system but premiere pro ends up using about 50GB. That usually happens when I'm using warp stabilizer on my 4k videos.
No wonder
I've been editing my videos on 16gb for a year and it's been so slow, I upgraded my cpu (3600>3700x) and it made almost no difference. I was using 14-15gb ram so I thought I had enough, but after upgrading to 32gb it's made a HUGE difference in the preview/editing render, it saves SO much time (and pain) being able to edit quickly without the lag. Just a basic video I'm already using 20gb, so on 16gb it must have been using my nvme and hdd to compensate. Thanks for making it clear, this video pretty much convinced me to try it.
Just wait until you get 64 gb of ram!
@@MarS-dc2qx but if I'm only using about 20gb most of the time it probably isn't being bottlenecked.
Late reply, but what resolution was the video you were editing? If I plan on only working with 1080p to 1440p video, do I really need all of the ram?
@@theNH I was editing in 1080p, 1440p and even 2160x1080. The ram definitely helps, I'm still always above 16gb even doing basic stuff, it's a cheap but very helpful upgrade.
Thumbnail shows Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere. No tests were done on photoshop and ligthroom :/
What tests would you have me do?
@@StefanMalloch I would like to see more in lightroom. The time it takes to generate previews, how responsive are the sliders, how fast you can go through edited images. And maybe multitasking during export, because mine became really laggy when exporting, with 16 gb ddr4 and a 6 core i7. It pretty much maxes my 16 gb. Thanks!
@@StefanMalloch a good photoshop test would be running some high resolution Photoshop actions
@@YohanM99 or swaping RAW images from Lightroon to Photoshop while editing
@@PioSoesetio308 you are stupid for expecting a thumbnail to be even be related to the thumbnail and thinking the uploader gives a dang as long as he got the precious ad revenue.
Inconsistent test! 16GB RAM you tested with open browser in background meanwhile 32GB with no open browser. In a 16GB test just before you started exporting that file we see that 6.9 GB were already used whereas in a 32GB we don't know how much RAM were occupied before a test.
fact!
And 16 gb Test, had 3 days running!!
I noticed this straight away...
@@GuilhermeOliveira0 While Chrome might have affected the test, the "running time" did not. Because of the power states modern PCs use, the running time is not rest if you just shut the PC down; the running time keeps going. It only resets if you either restart the PC, or disconnect it from power, which he did to swap out the RAM.
Bro is there any timeline/playback difference from 16 to 32gb ram
This is exactly the video I’ve been needing to see. Thank you for the insight!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!!!! Almost every youtuber i've watched has only shown comparisons with games.....
Honestly im upgrading from 16gb to 64, 16 is beginning to crash some heavy recourse games. reason im not getting 32 is if im gonna spend a premium, im going to future-proof for a few years down the line and ive been thinking of learning how to edit down the line anyway like after effects and premiere pro. So its a reason for me to invest
Smart
Same here, I'm starting to see requirements pop up for things like Flight Simulator that want 32gb for recommended. Which means it's time to go 64gb for a few years of future proofing, besides, memory is a LOT cheaper than it was even a year ago. Spending an extra $150 is small peanuts for peace of mind.
@@neoasura were switching to DDR5 memory next year though...
@@BlakeCodGuy1 uh where is it
@@Kejasr it’s coming in the next amd and Intel chips which usally launch in November
I just goes up from 16 to 32, not only the render time go faster, the preview during editing also silk smooth as well
I just upgraded from a 4gb mbp to a 32gb mbp. Much needed
Hey man, great video!
I hope you'd allow me to correct something you've said at about 5:20 - that less sticks of RAM is best for performance.
It’s quite the opposite! Since most motherboards support dual channel and dual rank, it is the most optimal to use at least 2 sticks (for dual channel) and best to use 4 (double dual channel equals dual channel at dual (or even quad) rank).
Dual or quad rank is better than single rank because it allows for greater bits/second rate between ram, motherboard and processor.
So 4 single rank RAM sticks of 8gb is actually 32gb in dual channel and dual rank, while one single stick of 32gb is in single channel and possibly single rank (some 32gb sticks are dual rank).
I don't know if I was able to explain it properly, but there are plenty of videos on youtube about it.
Cheers!
Perfect timing. Been rocking 16GB, but will be upgrading to 32GB since I am also doing a big CPU upgrade as well. Hope this smooths out a lot of my editing
whats better i7 9700k 5ghz with 32gb 2666mhz or i7 9700 with 32gb 3200mhz
@@dxture.3365 3200mhz and the 9700k of course
@@LautaroPaliza meant other way around i edited my comment pls reply again
@@dxture.3365 Depends on what you are doing if you want to overclock the cpu you will be going with the 9700k or if you need that ram speed and not overclocking the cpu go for the other one
Add the 16gb to the 32gb
Love the short end conclusion! Definitely made me know which one to select!
Bro is there any timeline/playback difference from 16 to 32gb ram
@@sahilgupta6125(you might have to ask the youtube author and not me) I'm not animating anything, just working with very large PSD files and found out 64GB is actually beneficial on the amount of layers I use.
@@xikura Ok np
i have been searching high and low for such comparison. you did it best! thank you very much
Very much appreciate this comparison--it's clear, concise, and informative, and considers a range of users from casual to professional.
If a 30 minute render is only 5 minutes faster, I don't see the value. I think the bigger question is how does RAM affect real-time editing?
That is the question
Exactly. The video hardly went into this, which is sort of the biggest point.
6:07 lol wow rly? You my hero, i didnt know that. I can tell the same without a test, witout any Videos. 16gb is ok, 32gb is better. But 64gb is the best of the 3. Looooooool.
But it costs kidney
I just need 32Gb to fill up all the DIMM slots for full RGB experience...
same
rgb is gay
I went for all blacked out setup with red led fan , i love the dark feeling of the case lol
@@keagannelka1456 red and black (most common in cheap ugly gaming laptops) is probably even worse than full RGB, which is too played out already. Plus ur losing a lot of FPS by only having red lights
Im sorry, but the thing is, we cant actually know if the ram meet our requirements with export/render times. Im fine with waiting to export, what I need to know is how much ram do I need to put how many lightroom brushes for example, around how many "layers" in a given image, of a given size? Same thing for photoshop. Am I alone here? The flow of the editing is most important.
As soon as I heard your accent, I knew you were a fellow Canadian :). Thanks for sharing this information!
Accent lol? How'd you know?
Thanks for making this video. This is exactly what I was looking for in regards to benchmark speeds, not the usually videos I kept finding (comparing FPS in video games). IMHO, buying 128GB of ram is a more worthwhile upgrade than paying the overblown price for a new GPU. It's almost ironic how the price of RAM and the price of video cards flip flopped. Video cards _used_ to be affordable.
I think what this video missed out on is the multitasking abilities. I think that is waaay more important than rendering times, and this is what is severely limited at 16Gb. If you want to create a vector object in Illustrator, move it over to After Effects to animate it and then put it into Premiere while not constantly closing those programs, I think 16 Gb will start to produce lag.
I think for CPUs with more than 8 cores, they will benefit a lot with 64GB like the 3900X and 3950X
My i7 9700k has 8 cores. You reckon intel cpus would benefit as well or nah
@@Alpha-gk6hdnah intel bad
I'm at 16GB (8x2). When making top 10 UA-cam videos for clients, I open up my video editor with photoshop and chrome web browser with about 5 - 8 tabs. Been on the fence with going 32GB. Think its worth it with the workload I mentioned? don't know if 3 minutes faster is really worth it.
depends on your cpu as well. Your cpu/gpu will also affect render speeds. Hes showing this bc the CPU is a viable budget 8c cpu, and the ram is the pure justification for the change in outcome. Hes just offering aspects to why a person would spend more if its worth it to them. Or if you have multiple work loads. Ram can be a major limiting factor as well as the program and how it caters to your cpus single/multicore aspects
@@anhiirr thank you for clearing that up! CPU and GPU are hanging in there. Cheers!
2:22 No ALL THE TESTS ARE NOT THE SAME! you are not using a 12 minute file THE FIRST 2 TESTS ARE A 46 MINUTE FILE AND THE LAST IS A 1hr LONG FILE! If you are going to benchmark something the details are important.
You need at least 16 if you want to open premiere, chrome and spotify and if you want to open premiere chrome spotify after effects and media encoder at the same time then you should go with 32
I have 8 gb ddr3 1600 MHz and I can open chrome, premier (no 4K video or photos) and spotify without any big problems.
30 minutes isn't much if you asked me, it's very good, thanks for the information ❤️🙌🏼
thanks for taking your time and comparing the 3 in real work test
thank you. this helped me a lot in my decision making!
I think it is also a huge difference wether you are running single or dual channel
have 64gb, 32 is probably best for most visual designers
How bout 128?
32gb minimum. 64 preferably
Bro is there any timeline/playback difference from 16 to 32gb ram
@@sahilgupta6125 16gb is too limiting for editing,,, I always have 2 browsers open with over 50tabs in them & while editing ram usage is always above 16gb, recently did 4k120fps video & ram usage would go above 40gb at times
@@mirrorlessny I mostly do 1080p60
oh god is this exact video i needed ... many thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Just a quick question, did you switch how many ram stick in each configuration.
For example, did you get a 4x16gb kit and start with one 16gb stick, then 2x16gb (32gb) for the 32gb test?
Because the performance probably actually comes from the dual channel nature, and more so, the quad channel.
As a result, the last statement about the computer having an easier time accessing fewer ram stick is false, dual channel doubles the memory bandwidth that the CPU can access and quad channel doubles that again, not saying that you will get twice the performance, but still, the performance that is dependent on the ram speed will be increased. xD
Further more, the ram sticks themselves need to actually process some things too, and having more sticks means that the "searching" load can be shared between more ram sticks.
I would recommend two sticks of ram, 2x16gb for instance, then you will be taking advantage of dual channel, assuming you read the motherboard manual and put the ram sticks in the right slots. The main reason I would recommend two rams stick instead of the full four is that you might want to upgrade how much ram you have and if you get a full 4 sticks you'll have to buy all new ram, because mixing brands, speeds, and sizes is not recommended.
Thanks for reading if you did!
--Wolfgang.
if your chipset allows quad channel, having 4 slots of quad channel is faster than 2 slots of dual channel, even for the same amount of ram.
Nice information, subscribed
when using 4 sticks you can use dual channel though, so it is better to have more ;)
4 sticks are quad channel. Dual channel are 2 sticks. You are talking about ranks. Its the best to have 4 ranks active and that could be achieved by 4 single-ranked sticks (most of 8GB and lower capacity sticks are single-ranked) or by two 16GB dual-ranked sticks (most of 16GB and higher capacity sticks are dual-ranked). YOu dont want to have 4x dual-ranked sticks because then you have 8 active ranks which is slower.
@@basacz thanks for the additional info 🙏
@@basacz Wht about 8x2 + 16x2 will it be good ?
@@RaoufHaouariOfficial You should always go with same modules (same brand, frequency, capacity) if possible
@@basacz thank you!
Watching this on my iPhone 7 Plus @ 1080p w/ 3gb of RAM and multiple other tabs open.
PERFECT VIDEO! Exactly what I'm looking for! 😊👍✅
Great to hear!
I just bought 96gb of ram so now I'm looking for videos to help me convince myself that it was a good decision lol
How is it ? i am scared to pull the trigger on a 96gb
For people running hypervisors, get as much as you can. You will be thankful that you can have 3-4 different environment where you can simultaneously tweak to see system changes or to make other observations, work load.
Many modern CPUs pack 2 memory controllers vs 1 just 2 years ago. 1 memory controller dedicated for each channel. What this means nowadays is that in fact packing 4 sticks is actually better than 2 sticks for the same amount of ram because you would be making use of the expanded architecture to access all the sticks.
More RAM will gives you (0:48) . Note: multitask mayebe it means: while you prepare the frames in premiere - you can edit some images and sounds for the video edition you're working on. it doesn't mean that's the way to work, because you have the script/screen play, checklist of photos and audios: working audio in the morning, photo images and video in afternoon, crop and paste videos in the night. working all that in the same session requires more RAM and .... %$&\*
Great informative video. Thank you.
Very nice video, exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks man this was much needed for me
No problem
excellent content.. thank you for making this
Im always amazed how cheap Ram is compared to Apples prices 😆
I work as a C# and Java developer and 32 GB is enough
However I go with 64GB Ram because sometimes I run some VMs and just to have some head room
64GB is like 300€ here .. so it’s quite cheap considering I make money with this machine
How much for digital art? 16gb or 32gb? Mostly Photoshop and animations in future etc, Also what about storage? 512 or 1tb
Hey man what you choosed? Thx for reply!
@@marekstepanek1214 16 gb 512 gb
I just bought 128gb 3600Mhz Ram but i'm afraid i still won't be able to run Google Chrome.
100 percent helpful information thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I mainly play some runescape and watch UA-cam so I decided to get 128 gb's of 4000 mhz 14cas ram.
2060: is 16TB ram enough ?¿
What speed and latency of ram , test done with??
3200
Alright you convinced me. 64GB it is for editing, that few minutes of time saved can add up over the years. Thanks for this video man.
You should have actually ran some tests in Photoshop and Lightroom, like you said in the beginning. Watched the whole video just to find out more RAM is better for an application I don't use...
There are many articles and videos now that state the opposite... that 4 sticks of RAM yields better performance (unless your overclocking - harder to overclock 4 sticks than 2). But you have to have 4 for the full RGB effect. RGB = > FPS
I have 16gb ram and I struggle with Photoshop when I have multiple projects open along with Google Chrome. Chrome eats my memory but I always have to have it open. Getting more than 16gb is definitely the way to go
For my UA-cam channel rendering I use 64GB RAM
Watched it and upgraded ram from 16gb 2666mhz to 3200mhz 64gb. Worth it? Yes , less crashing. Used to render 4K videos and the ram almost used up to 90% of 16gb and it might not be a single run successful render. After upgrading, I was surprised it used almost up to 39% of 64gb for rendering but upside is you can do more things than just wait for rendering to be done instead.
In my country if you got 8GB RAM PC, you are the real deal, most users still at 4 GB and 2GB🇰🇪
Do you live in 2005? 😉
*I would add the point that if you have two, or multiples of two, memory modules/sticks, and they are matched in capacity, speed, and latency, and also if your computer and its bios will allow it, to make sure that you are running in, "Dual Channel", memory mode, as that will increase the ram's read and write speeds from slightly to dramatically, depending on the system configuration and what applications you are running...*
I have 16GB in my 15” MacBook Pro and that wasn’t enough, now I have 64GB in my 16” MacBook Pro.
dude 16GB is more than enough..
@@disclaimer6872 ill say it really depends... I'm working as a professional digital artist. I constantly fill up 32g in only use photoshop alone. just had 200+ layers/ mattes/ effects/ all in 6k resolutions and 16bit colour profile. 32 it just not enough, due to still need to open several windows and web browsers tabs for references.
Angra Pan wtf.....6k and 200+ layers and 16 bit color profile?
Lol ofc for someone who is like you 32 gb of ram won't be enough...but for gamers like me and most of the pc users 16gb will be just enough
@@disclaimer6872for what?😂
Me going to render 4k resolution video
My 4gb ram laptop : Dont you dare do it
Thank you so much!
Thanks for this video!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks, this was helpful. I am starting off editing with 16gb ram and then i will upgrade to 32gb ram in the near future
Thanks for your video it was veeery helpful...
does RAM speed matter for 3d modeling or not? i have 2666mhz
Great question. For something this specific, I will defer you to someone that is more of an expert on it. Someone on UA-cam knows the answer 😃
Yep
It's after effects and blender which consumes most ram, you should have consider those softwares and also rendering is not the problem, it's the preview in it, which slows down the process.
Rember using my pc for cinema4d 13 years before
I still have the same pc and I use it only for counter strike 1.6
me: editing videos on premiere pro with google chrome on 8gb ram 👁👄👁
this is a late comment, but could you do a follow up with some vfx programs running? I'm thinking about multitasking after effects, premiere, and maybe some blender, and perhaps gaming and streaming at the same time. Im on the fence with 64gb and 128gb... 128 sounds overkill but if i prioritize everything 32gb of ram then it doesn't seem that bad.
OH I HAVE A QUESTION - ADDING MORE RAM WOULD INCREASE MY REALTIME PREVIEW IN PREMIERE AND AFTER EFFECTS YES OR NO ?
My machine has 32GB RAM and there have been a few times I thought about upgrading to 64GB but later dropped the idea. My machine is 6 years old and I don't see the point to spend any money for this dinosaur. When I get my next computer I definitely will put 64GB RAM in.
I have 64 gb ram 😂😂
I've been on 16GB for 5 years now on a 980ti i7-4790k. Served me well with video editing and photoshopping ever since. But this could be the year... oh forgot I lost my job due to covid. Perhaps next year? Hehehe
Send a raw picture from Lr to Ps for further edits (and have 20+ tabs of chrome running in the background) then you need 64GB.
Thats my everyday scenario. And with 16 gigs i am very fast at 97 percent usage.... need more
Very useful comparison video in brief. I am going to upgrade until 32GB only when 32GB single RAM is at the lowest price point someday.
Hi I’ve just purchased a new 27” iMac which is on d way. 8GB as standard but I’ve purchased 2x16GB memory to add... Is it possible to buy one 32GB card or even a 64GB to go into one card slot ? Thank you
Not just video editors need more ram, those who run muliple virtual machines on their system also need more Ram. Some software developers need atleast 32gb ram. I run multiple virtual machines and I am barely making it with 32GB RAM.
Would like to hear more about your comments on the performance comparison of 2 RAM sticks vs 4 RAM sticks
Well. I think your wrong about the gfx need. Upgrading my gfx made a substantial difference to my render times. Also, you need enough vram to not have vram buffering inside the editor
just upgraded to 32gb i was using 16gb before and i could see the differences right away i can run tasks while gaming not having to bother closing tabs tbh
Once you notice the unsynchronized LED fans you can't unseen it.
Every. Video. 🤣
I just got an HP Victus for Christmas and it came with 8gb ram so I decided to upgrade to 32GB and I couldn't be any happier the games I play run hella smooth and the FPS is great no crashes or issues whatsoever. To me 32 GB is better I don't need to go any higher than that.
I have a few questions. Why are ou upscaling the output to 4k and using software rendering instead hardware rendering since you have a gtx 1080? great video btw
Good catch. Watch my new abobe gpu video for answers! 😉
If the RAM capacity differs between manufacturing specs and computer check-ups, which one should we follow?
Thank You!
Excellent content, m'boy!
Can you a Davinci Resolve ? I guess 16GB aint enough on it :/
I tried it with 8gb and it crushed 😂
Is it better to get more RAM that SSD storage for performance? I believe it is but just checking...
An SSD for your main drive will be the biggest performance upgrade. HD for storage is fine. More ram if you're maxing out.
I get 64gb 4x16 for just a full rgb slots
And watch yt in background
When the higher ram was installed, did you go into the preferences and allocate more memory to be used?
Does CAS Latency affect this programs? Im torn of getting CL16 or CL18,
Depends, if you have 3rd gen AMD go with CL 16. There’s a whole video explaining the difference ram latency makes with AMD 3rd gen processors.
@@southvizionsThanks, I'm Using Ryzen5 3600X. If you will have more ram rather than lower latency in same price, is it better? Cant decide between "2x8 16gb 3600Mhz CL16" or "2x16 32gb 3600Mhz CL18"
go with 3600mhz for sure
Money’s not an issue, I tend to settle only for the best of the best and especially with Black Friday
I watched a few videos showing 4 sticks vs 2 stick vs 1 stick of the same amount of ram and it actually showed the 4 sticks running the fastest.