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> Playstation 5 Memory 16 GB GDDR6, 512 MB DDR4 RAM (for background tasks).

I am an AAA PC Gamer, but why are PC games requiring 16GB of System Memory minimum on top of 8 to 16GB of GPU Memory?

And the problem is, again as I have stated for nearly a decade. The Cost of memory per GB aren't dropping much.

It's dropping but way slower than it used to.

The memory requirements for pc are from my understanding due to PC often multi tasking next to the game, chrome, discord, mail client, music, twitch, the list goes on.

> I am an AAA PC Gamer, but why are PC games requiring 16GB of System Memory minimum on top of 8 to 16GB of GPU Memory?

I'm a console gamer but I think it's to do with things like textures and other game assets need to go to system RAM before GPU, so it's not quite as efficient as they unified RAM on consoles.

I think this was an issue with the PS3 vs Xbox 360. PS3 had 256MB of system and 256MB GPU, vs the 512MB unified in the 360. This resulted in memory heavy games like Skyrim running worse and having more bugs on the PS3 version

With Microsoft Direct Storage 1.1 games can stream data from SSD straight to the GPU bypassing the CPU. However games need to be written to support this feature and it will only work with DirectX 12 + Shader Model 6.0 games on Windows. So it won't work on the Steam Deck.

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