Does a gaming laptop need 16 GB of RAM or is 8 GB sufficient?

On the YouTube channel PC Support & Gaming Test tested the performance of an Acer Nitro 5 laptop with two

RAM options: 8 GB and 16 GB. The difference turned out to be quite significant. Discuss

Experts PC Support & Gaming Test in releaseon YouTube they launched the Valorant project in 1080p at high graphics settings on an Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop (Core i5 12th Gen 12500H, RTX 3050) with 8 GB and 16 GB of RAM.

With 8 GB of RAM, the frame rate during the game varied from 66 fps to 92 fps. The average FPS was 79 fps.

With 16 GB of RAM, the laptop showed FPS from 147 to 228 fps. The average performance was 187.5 fps.

Conclusion

As can be seen from the test results, the frequencyFrames in Valorant with a high preset in Full HD are significantly higher with 16 GB of RAM. Moreover, the difference between the average FPS with 8 GB and 16 GB is about 58 percent.

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58 laptop configuration:

  • CPUIntel Core i5 12th Gen 12500H (P-Cores: 4, E-Cores: 8);
  • RAM16GB DDR4 Upgraded Dual Channel 3200 Mhz (Upgradable Upto 32GB);
  • graphics cardNvidia GeForce RTX 3050 4GB GDDR6 (TGP:- 95W);
  • storage device512GB M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen 4 SSD;
  • operating systemWindows 11