Just got new iMac’s to replace the mac mini and laptops we were using (really slow).
We didn’t opt for the 16 or 32 gb memory upgrades but we’re finding 8gb goes pretty quickly with unity and other tools open.
Anyone got some feedback on how well 16gb or 32gb goes on their rigs?
Not using mac, but when I need to do a lot, my pc currently with 32gb is great, otherwise I survive pretty decently on my laptop for most things. But again, if I need to get renders done faster, the thing is designed around making those tasks faster, more memory, more processing power etc, depends what you need at the end of the day.
Using 20gb on my iMac, runs beautifully. Anything above 8gb unless you’re rendering crazy stuff is pretty overkill to be honest. 2jaycents did a video on ram usage which explained it well.
My goodness larvantholos ,what are you doing with 32GB? Is it for a massive 16K,32K perhaps? 
I am with just 4GB.
8gb, I don’t usualy fill it unless I break something in programming but I’m doing retro graphics ATM.
Buddy, You have one big memory for retro. Am I the only one targeting for a machine in-between ps3-ps4 with just 4GB!!!
I have 4gb ram but I’m targeting average smart phones…
If you’re using Activity Monitor, remember that both green (free) and blue (inactive) counts as free RAM. If there’s little green left, there’s no need to be concerned unless the yellow and red are taking up almost all the space. With 8GB, I rarely find that more than half of that or so is really in-use at any one time.
–Eric
1GB on my iPad.
1~2GB on my VPS’s.
8GB on my rMBP.
128GB on my Dedicated Server.
6 on laptop (upgradable) and on computer.
Well, I do a wide variety of art stuff, from characters to evironments, sometimes I need the memory purely for rendering (I also have a beast video card on my system). Sometimes I need it because I have zbrush, 3ds max, photoshop, 3dcoat all running at the same time, I’ve got tv in another window, and I’ve got music playing (music or tv) - additionally I have all sort of programs running browsers skype etc. Being able to multitask without slow down is really useful, however - I do the same stuff on my laptop, and generally until I am hitting the more dense scenes, or the higher multi million poly character stuff, I don’t see or get much benefit, 8gb is more than enough in that area.
Also, these days you should have more than 4gb on your system for 64 bit system, this allows multiple programs to use their max mem (4gb on windows 3.5 or so on mac)
You’re talking about 32-bit apps. 64-bit apps (so, not Unity cough 
) have no such limitation.
–Eric
Yes and no. I’m talking about the fact that a lot of us use a mix of 32 64 bit programs, and if your using 32 programs IE unity, zbrush, you wont get the most out of them if you ONLY have 4gb of ram, because the OS usually wants a piece of that among other things. But yes, I ment 32 programs on a 64 bit system 
Recently I am thinking of upgrading my ram to 8GB. Specially I face some slowdown problem when I use both GOZ and zapplink sametime. Sometime I have to close maya window and do just applink on photoshop. My worst nightmare comes when I bake 4k map(specially AO) on xnormal. But I think my machine is ok enough for ps2/wii style art creation.
8GB, thinking of upgrading to 16GB (just because I can).
Ram is so cheap, no reason not to throw more in if you can. Well, cheap on the pc side, you mac folks gotta buy expensive rebranded apple stuff right?
I have 8 and haven’t had any RAM problems both playing games and developing them. Think 8 is a good number judging by my experience with older computers and this thread.
Still run 4 gb here on everything (macs and pcs). I understand beast is hungry for a lot more though. In fact I think beast is like one of those old cars: out of date, slow, and fuel hungry.
Im on 8gb and not using all of it.
Almost got a 16gb upgrade kit, but I did let it go; I don’t need all that RAM for now.
Ditto
Hippo, Kaiyum, and I should start the poor man’s ram club.