Asus TUF A15 Memory Upgrade - Curious question about going to 32+ GB

[Roobir]

Hey lads,

I'll get to the point, I've been looking at what small gains are available for my little laptop and found the following thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Asustuf/comments/1086j6g/need_help_with_asus_tuf_a15_2022_upgrading_ram

The laptop is the Asus TUF A15 with a Ryzen 6800H, 3050ti (i think 80W + 15W dynamic), and 2x8GB DDR5 4800. I'm toying with the idea to upgrade to G.Skill 2x 16GB DDR5 4800 @ CL34 (I think better timings than the kit I have atm). While at it, I also want to change the wifi to an intel pcie.

What do you lads think about this change, any significant change or am i wasting my time? Also, as per the image, is there a difference in available discrete GPU memory when I upgrade to 32GB or more memory in the system? Seems a bit odd.

 

[goldfritter]

This depends on your use-case.

For gaming, I've yet to see any proof that going from 16GB to 32GB improves frame rates. People will state that some games allocate more than 16GB in some cases, or when using background apps while gaming, but I've never seen a benchmark showing a meaningful difference in FPS (if someone has a well-validated benchmark from a reliable source showing a significant gain in FPS when changing from 16GB to 32GB then I'd be happy to change my view).

I'm not sure if the laptop chips have the same relationship to RAM speed as the desktop CPUs. If yes, then it may be worth focusing on a higher RAM speed - around 6000MT/S CL30 is often quoted as a sweet spot. This may improve FPS a bit, at 1080p especially.

If it's for a productivity workload, then it depends. I'd say for video editing it definitely makes sense. For other tasks, you'd have to find out whether RAM capacity makes a difference.

If for the experiment or for bragging rights or "just sommer" - well, why are you asking us then, go ahead and buy your nice new RAM

I don't know about the GPU memory thing, seems odd.

 

[Roobir]

This depends on your use-case.

For gaming, I've yet to see any proof that going from 16GB to 32GB improves frame rates. People will state that some games allocate more than 16GB in some cases, or when using background apps while gaming, but I've never seen a benchmark showing a meaningful difference in FPS (if someone has a well-validated benchmark from a reliable source showing a significant gain in FPS when changing from 16GB to 32GB then I'd be happy to change my view).

I'm not sure if the laptop chips have the same relationship to RAM speed as the desktop CPUs. If yes, then it may be worth focusing on a higher RAM speed - around 6000MT/S CL30 is often quoted as a sweet spot. This may improve FPS a bit, at 1080p especially.

If it's for a productivity workload, then it depends. I'd say for video editing it definitely makes sense. For other tasks, you'd have to find out whether RAM capacity makes a difference.

If for the experiment or for bragging rights or "just sommer" - well, why are you asking us then, go ahead and buy your nice new RAM

I don't know about the GPU memory thing, seems odd.

The use-case is mostly playing some 1080p games when i'm mobile, not so much bragging rights ;-)

But the thread claiming additional memory (better timing) resulted in a 10-20fps change seemed a bit too good to be true. As far as i know the asus TUF series do not support anything higher than 4800, so the only option is better timings on 4800 - but does this really make a significant change for the 6800H performance, i don't know.

For the games i play, i definitely don't need 32GB of system memory, but if it bags me extra performance (and additional memory for dGPU) then i might be keen

 

[Oj0]

a 10-20fps change

This is honestly one of the most ignorant things people say, and it gets said regularly.

30 FPS to 50 FPS is a 20 FPS change, and 66% faster
700 FPS to 720 FPS is also a 20 FPS change, but so far within margin of error it's meaningless

 

[Roobir]

This is honestly one of the most ignorant things people say, and it gets said regularly.

30 FPS to 50 FPS is a 20 FPS change, and 66% faster
700 FPS to 720 FPS is also a 20 FPS change, but so far within margin of error it's meaningless

But FPS!

in terms of pricing here, its ~400 with shipping for a 2x16GB G.Skill CL34 SODIMM kit. (Around the cost of a dinner with drinks for you and your significant other.)

So in the end; does more memory with better timing on a 6800H really have the potential for better performance at 1080p gaming?

 

[goldfritter]

But FPS!

in terms of pricing here, its ~400 with shipping for a 2x16GB G.Skill CL34 SODIMM kit. (Around the cost of a dinner with drinks for you and your significant other.)

So in the end; does more memory with better timing on a 6800H really have the potential for better performance at 1080p gaming?

Have you checked whether the timings are actually different?

HWINFO will provide you with this info.

 

[Roobir]

Have you checked whether the timings are actually different?

HWINFO will provide you with this info.

Yeah, if i remember its Kingston 2x8GB sticks. But I remember they were CL40. Used CPU-z though, but I guess its similar enough.