The PS5 has shared RAM between CPU and GPU. Not sure what the average split between the two is in games, but it would certainly be wrong to say it has use of the full 16gb like desktop cards have.
It’s mostly going to be graphical assets. Especially in a game like this which doesn’t have much else going on, and is constrained in terms of what else it can do because the base game ran on PS4.
Even on PC most of your RAM is just being used as extra cache for graphical assets. Very wasteful tbh, but it is what it is.
I’d guess VRAM at 75% of console RAM to be a safer bet. So 6GB last gen, 12GB this gen. Maybe more if you’re pushing higher resolutions, but most PC gamers aren’t even at 4K, let alone going beyond it.
Is it actually that little that gets used by the CPU? I assume there’d also be some overhead that gets claimed by the OS and not the game. Maybe 1-3gb?
Well, for me personally it does. According to the article its not like it can’t run on pcs with fewer than 8gb but it can ask for more than 8gb at higher settings, especially on Max. Furthermore since the game was developed on AMD cards (cuz consoles) my amd 8gb card will run it at 1080p at a reasonable framerate (with occasional slowdowns) this is superb news for me because i loved H:ZD
I made my comment hoping that some of the slowdown is denuvo-related.
Since time immemorial I have always done well in my PC purchases when prioritising VRAM amount over total GPU performance. It always lets me eek out a few more years of usage out of it.
I used to, but I made the mistake of getting something with just 8GB RAM, while I got my wife 12GB RAM. I got a good deal, but I’ll have to upgrade a year or two sooner than my wife.
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