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Do you need as much memory when you're running office applications as you do when you're gaming? How much memory do you need in Vista to game comfortably, and spreadsheet smoothly? The answers are next!
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Memory Size Benchmarks: Office Productivity, PCMark05, Doom 3, FEAR
 Office Productivity |
Source: Zdnet |
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Business
Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and
uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance
scores.
Content
Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that
measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit,
content creation applications in Windows XP.
 Office Productivity |
| Business Winstone 2004: |
Points |
Ranking |
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| 512MB System Memory |
24.3 |
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| 1GB System Memory |
29.4 |
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| 2GB System Memory |
29.6 |
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| 4GB System Memory |
29.5 |
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| Content Creation 2004: |
Points |
Ranking |
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| 512MB System Memory |
35.2 |
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| 1GB System Memory |
40.6 |
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| 2GB System Memory |
40.8 |
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| 4GB System Memory |
40.7 |
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Winstone's Office Productivity benchmark illustrates why all SOHO and office PCs
running Vista should have at least 1GB of RAM. The difference between 512MB and
1GB of total system memory is pretty visible. Performance between systems with
1GB, 2GB and 4GB of memory are all approximately the same.
PCMark05 is a premium tool for measuring both
normal home use and simple 3D performance of the latest PC hardware. There are
11 system tests - each one is designed to represent a certain type of PC usage.
By running these tests, PCMark05 stresses the components in a similar manner as
they are stressed in normal home usage.
| PCMark05: |
| Overall |
Points |
Ranking |
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| 512MB System Memory |
7012 |
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| 1GB System Memory |
7265 |
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| 2GB System Memory |
7306 |
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| 4GB System Memory |
7312 |
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| Memory |
Points |
Ranking |
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| 512MB System Memory |
5232 |
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| 1GB System Memory |
5434 |
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| 2GB System Memory |
5452 |
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| 4GB System Memory |
5433 |
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PCMark05 benefits from a dramatic difference
between 512MB and 1GB of system memory. The benchmark results are much closer
when the system is installed with 2GB and 4GB of memory.
Doom 3 takes advantage of the latest videocard
technology and pushes the processing power of the CPU to its absolute limit. At
its highest setting, Ultra quality, texture sizes pass the 500MB mark which
means even tomorrow's videocards will have a hard time running everything. The
frame rates in the game itself are locked at 60 fps so anything above that point
is wasted. Each test is run three times with the third run being
recorded.
| ID Software Doom 3 |
| LQ 640x480 |
FPS |
Ranking |
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| 512MB System Memory |
143.2 |
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| 1GB System Memory |
168.3 |
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| 2GB System Memory |
178.5 |
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| 4GB System Memory |
178.6 |
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Gamers should definitely take note of the Doom 3 framerates
here... Notice the difference between 512MB and 1GB of system memory? There
seems to be a bit of a performance difference between 1GB and 2GB but it's not
as pronounced as the difference between 512MB and 1GB.
| Sierra FEAR
1.08 |
Source: Sierra |
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FEAR is Sierra's latest first person shooter which
relies heavily on DirectX 9 features. With its "Soft Shadows" feature enabled,
even the fastest videocards run at a crawl, FEAR is definitely the new benchmark
for future FPS games to follow.
| Sierra FEAR 1.08 |
| Minimum 640x480 |
FPS |
Ranking |
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| 512MB System Memory |
417 |
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| 1GB System Memory |
462 |
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| 2GB System Memory |
497 |
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| 4GB System Memory |
502 |
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Again we see a rather large performance difference
between the system with 512MB of memory and everything else. There is
also a slightly performance boost when moving towards 2GB of memory, again something
that gamers will want to take note of. Going from 2GB to 4GB doesn't
do much.
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