Does Linux use less RAM? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago by TRex91@feddit.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Games need more RAM, but prices are abysmal. Unfortunate, I know. But before you empty your wallet for an upgrade, what if the answer is switching to the penguin side? I ran two identical test benches in real-world workloads to find out if ditching Windows is the only memory upgrade you actually need.

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[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

maybe, this video tested with 8GB and there was a difference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJEo6Kb6Rhg

but idk how trustworthy that channel is

similarly they did a test with 4GB of VRAM and some games did better on Linux than on Windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Y9MI_g-0U

especially in 1% lows

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah it's enough to make an appreciable difference in the right circumstances, but it's not going to miraculously take a rig from struggling to run a certain game to working smoothly.

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