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by smcleod
1022 days ago
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Yeah but I remember thinking to myself every few years that surely next year will be the year that base model machines start at 32/64/… GB - but alas, it’s nearly the end of 2023 and your average computer still seems stuck on a measly 16GB! I don’t think average RAM size on consumer machines has increased at all in the last 8~ years or so. |
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RAM is only about 6x the speed of SSD’s for sequential access. Most people don’t actually need truly random access to all that much data rather than streaming video or loading video game assets to their GPU. So they shift spending to other components like video card, monitors, etc that actually provide significant value.
Which is how you get people with 16 GB of system RAM using graphics cards that also have 16GB of RAM.