Yet another upcoming PC game is asking for an enormous amount of RAM. Is this really the new normal?
If you’re someone who likes to play the latest games, you may soon need to upgrade your PC — and that’s even if you used to think that your rig already had everything you needed. Why is that? Because of rapidly rising RAM requirements.
Forspoken has three different levels of system requirements: minimum, recommended, and whatever it takes to run the game at ultra settings in 4K. Going with the bare minimum equals at least an Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB or an AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 8GB, as well as the Intel Core i7-3770. The ideal system requirements for Forspoken include at least an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X or an Intel Core i7-12700. Both of these are still some of the strongest CPUs on the market. There’s a surprise in the graphics card department — Forspoken devs recommend either an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT or an Nvidia RTX 4080. This is an interesting discrepancy, seeing as the last-gen RX 6800 XT can’t hope to keep up with the RTX 4080 in 4K gaming scenarios.
When ‘overkill’ becomes a requirement Building a new gaming PC usually means focusing on two big components: the processor and the graphics card. Unfortunately for some, many of the other pieces of hardware become a bit of an afterthought. Hey, I get it — they’re just not as exciting as the CPU and the GPU are. RAM is something that most builders know you need to have enough of, but similarly, there comes a point where stacking even more of it becomes largely redundant.
Even then, it’s strange to see something that used to be considered overkill suddenly creep up on us and become a requirement. It feels like it’s only a matter of time before having 64GB RAM becomes the norm in high-end builds. And then, it won’t be long before more and more games call for 32GB instead of 16GB at minimum.
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