Does More RAM Make Difference in Gaming Performance?
Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dying Light
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Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dragon Age: Inquisition is the most recent game from the popular action RPG franchise Dragon Age. It was launched in November 2014 and uses the Frostbite 3 engine with SpeedTree.
We ran the game at 1920 x 1080 (Full HD), with all quality options at “high”, measuring three times the framerate with FRAPS.
In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the game ran with similar performance with 4 GiB and 8 GiB, but the framerate with 16 GiB was 16% lower than on the 8 GiB test.
Dying Light
Dying Light is an open-world horror game launched in January 2015, using the Chrome Engine 6. We tested the performance at this game with all quality options at “high”, at 1920 x 1080 (Full HD), measuring three times the framerate using FRAPS.
In this game, the highest performance was with 4 GiB, being 22% higher than the 8 GiB and 11% higher than the 16 GiB test.