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Sununununun
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6 Sep 2026 at 18:23 #1

Hello guys,

I currently have 16GB single stick of DDR5 RAM. I would have preferably gone for the 32GB RAM, but obviously due to the current prices I decided to hold off on that. However, I do wonder if there would be a noticeable difference between 16 and 32GB in Battlefield 6?

If anyone has experience, please share. Thanks!

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agustinpicho
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6 Sep 2026 at 18:27 #2

Yes, the difference will be quite noticeable but not due to higher capacity but mainly due two sticks running in a dual-channel mode

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3264gggg
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6 Sep 2026 at 18:28 #3

As someone who has had both.
Absolutely

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Sununununun
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6 Sep 2026 at 18:29 #4

Did you see difference in the Avg. FPS or 1% Lows or both? Thank you for the reply

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Sununununun
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6 Sep 2026 at 18:30 #5

Thank you, although from what I've heard, DDR5s aren't impacted as much by dual-channel or lack thereof

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gabrieleclipse
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6 Sep 2026 at 18:48 #6

Simply not true

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agamerhasnotag
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6 Sep 2026 at 18:49 #7

I play on low settings with my 3060 which I think has only 4 GB vram? And only 16gbs of ram

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klip88
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6 Sep 2026 at 18:50 #8

yes there is - source i did it - and 0.1% 1% 99% fps are increasing and frametime is better

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dLujo4k
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6 Sep 2026 at 18:57 #9

16GB of ram is not enough, it’ll barely run the OS these days

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totalfps
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6 Sep 2026 at 19:00 #10

it's half true. they're affected but not nearly as much as ddr4 was

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Jayzhy
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6 Sep 2026 at 19:01 #11

Wtf is that bullshit

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Aenthon
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6 Sep 2026 at 19:04 #12

I knew there would be a difference but wasn't expecting the impact to be the difference between comfortable gaming in 4k to going down to 1080p for a still not as good experience. 2 sticks of ddr4 is a must have in my opinion. Playable without but holy balls huge upgrade in dual channel

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spjg
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6 Sep 2026 at 19:25 #13

16 GBs of RAM are enough

Even with 8 GBs of RAM I could play the games I wanted (Assetto Corsa with some mods, War Thunder, Rocket League, all of the emulated games I tried till now, GTA 4 and many other games)

I'm not quite the fan of recent games, the only recent games I play right now are REPO and Battlefield 6

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Drakengard2099
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6 Sep 2026 at 19:27 #14

About 16.

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sxldy
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6 Sep 2026 at 19:27 #15

BF6 is CPU intensive. You’ll usually run into bottlenecks there unless you’re a crazy person running a 9X3D. I would slap a new chip in as it’s more cost effective right now.

From there it’ll be a VRAM issue with your card. For RAM, dual sticks beat single channel every time.

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