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by nottorp 203 days ago
The thing is, on a ps5 you just open the game and it runs fine.

On a PC you may have the bright idea to open a browser along with the game for walkthroughs/hints. Or Discord to chat with your friends while gaming.

Due to javascript bloat, your working set size goes from 16 to 48-64 Gb in a jiffy.
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kaszanka 203 days ago
That's still not a fair comparison, because on a console you don't have the option to do any of that.
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dlock17 203 days ago
It is a pretty fair comparison.

You do have the option to open up Discord voice chats on PS5. Amazing what Discord could do when forced to actually write something efficient.

Youtube also exists as an app, and maybe you can trick the heavily gimped built in browser to go there as well, although last I checked it wasn't trivial.

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kaszanka 202 days ago
TIL! That's neat, I wonder how much RAM that client uses compared to the desktop one.
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nottorp 202 days ago
Personally I haven’t caught the discord electron app (it’s not a desktop client) using more than 4G of ram at one time :)

Maybe 6 once. Try not to leave it for weeks displaying the memes/cat photos channels…

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nottorp 203 days ago
It kind of is, because if you use a PC like a console 16 Gb is enough. If you use a PC like a PC it's not.
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AuthAuth 202 days ago
I can run the spotify electron app, discord and watch youtube on my 2nd monitor perfectly fine with 16gb of DDR3 ram. When I open my game I get better fps than the ps5.
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