• Adobe Premiere Pro

  OT: Extra 4GB RAM worth it?

  Posted by Max Frank on October 23, 2012 at 8:50 pm

  Hi Y’all,

  I’ve currently got 28GB of RAM in my Mac Pro and I’m thinking of swapping out my 2 x 2GB sticks for 2 x 4GB, which will max out my RAM to 32GB.

  Question is, will I see a performance jump with the additional 4GB? If so, how much of a jump is it?
  Is it worth the cash?

  Specs below.

  Thanks,

  Wayne

  8 Core Mac Pro, 28GB RAM, NVIDIA 8000 CUDA Card
  10.8.2, PrP 6.0.2 [Heavy Premiere Pro user].

  Max Frank replied 13 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Clay Stearns

  October 23, 2012 at 9:34 pm

  Wayne,

  As you probably know ram is probably the main performance bottleneck in PP for most users. That said, the jump from 28 to 32 may not be a hugely noticeable boost unless you’re someone who uses multiple adobe programs simultaneously. If you work with, say, After Effects open alongside PP, the two programs are splitting ram. In that case you’d be boosting them from an effective 14gb each to 16, and you probably would notice the change.

  Hope that helps,

  Clay
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  Alex Udell

  October 23, 2012 at 9:59 pm

  I’ve always heard 2GB per core.

  28 is not equally divisble by your 8 cores….

  32 would be…

  So perhaps it would make for more efficient use of the RAM….

  but perhaps someone more techie would be able to explain…

  Alex
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  Alex Gerulaitis

  October 23, 2012 at 11:19 pm

  The only way to know is to monitor your memory usage and see if you bump against the limit often enough. That said – I am with everyone else, you can (almost) never have enough memory, especially if you are a heavy Pr user.
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  Max Frank

  November 15, 2012 at 10:52 am

  Thanks to everyone that took the time to answer.

  Wayne

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