I don't game these days and so I'm not familiar with the requirements of cutting-edge games and have little idea of what real-world difference you might see between 32GB versus 16GB with a particular title on your particular machine. My impression is that your graphics card will still have a much bigger impact on performance than your RAM, especially if you have an SSD. It's also the case that the placebo effect is very real, so I wouldn't be surprised if you firmly believe there's a difference in performance, when the measurable impact is actually so small as to be imperceptible.
What Saturnian says about Windows memory management is true. Windows will continue filling available RAM as more threads are used, but memory management is very good these days, and if you have a decent processor, decent motherboard, a decent SSD and the software has no memory management bugs, you shouldn't see any hesitation when switching from one task to another.
As it happens, I do have 32GB on my PCs, but that's because I occasionally render 3D models. The consensus in the forums for that particular modelling software is that it's a real memory glutton, and having that much RAM available noticeably reduces rendering times since it keeps the rendering engines in the graphics card fed.
I need more than 16GB of RAM?
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I don't game these days and so I'm not familiar with the requirements of cutting-edge games and have little idea of what real-world difference you might see between 32GB versus 16GB with a particular title on your particular machine. My impression is that your graphics card will still have a much bigger impact on performance than your RAM, especially if you have an SSD. It's also the case that the placebo effect is very real, so I wouldn't be surprised if you firmly believe there's a difference in performance, when the measurable impact is actually so small as to be imperceptible.
What Saturnian says about Windows memory management is true. Windows will continue filling available RAM as more threads are used, but memory management is very good these days, and if you have a decent processor, decent motherboard, a decent SSD and the software has no memory management bugs, you shouldn't see any hesitation when switching from one task to another.
As it happens, I do have 32GB on my PCs, but that's because I occasionally render 3D models. The consensus in the forums for that particular modelling software is that it's a real memory glutton, and having that much RAM available noticeably reduces rendering times since it keeps the rendering engines in the graphics card fed.