MBP mid-2010, 8gb RAM performance boost?

[rigm0r]

Hi!
I'm considering buying 8gb RAM for my MBP mid-2010 (upgrade from 4gb standard setup). Would that give me a noticable performance boost while gaming? I've seen those YouTube videos where they prove that the VRAM will increase to 512mb. That might just be numbers though.

Regards

 

[Detrius]

While gaming? No, it won't boost your framerate.

 

[shardey]

Hi!
I'm considering buying 8gb RAM for my MBP mid-2010 (upgrade from 4gb standard setup). Would that give me a noticable performance boost while gaming? I've seen those YouTube videos where they prove that the VRAM will increase to 512mb. That might just be numbers though.

Regards

Depending on which model, it may increase power, but minimally. My vram for my hd 3000 in my i7 went from 384 to 512 when I increased the ram to 8gb. I also threw in the 1866 mhz which works flawlessly.

As for upgrading the ram, its like $30-40 nowadays from newegg and that alone is worth the upgrade.

 

[DWBurke811]

It only changes the VRAM on the HD3000, the 320M will reamin at 256MB; but people make a much bigger deal about the whole increase in RAM thing than it really is, more or less it doesn't matter that the minimum amount changed.


But it's only $40, there's really no reason not to do it; it can't hurt anything.

 

[Young Spade]

Depending on which model, it may increase power, but minimally. My vram for my hd 3000 in my i7 went from 384 to 512 when I increased the ram to 8gb. I also threw in the 1866 mhz which works flawlessly.

As for upgrading the ram, its like $30-40 nowadays from newegg and that alone is worth the upgrade.

That doesn't mean anything though. The higher shared memory does NOT improve performance. You get the same gaming performance with 8 as you do with 6 as you do with 4.

Common misconception.

 

[Freyqq]

well it could potentially raise performance IF vram was actually the bottleneck of the Intel 3000 video card. Unfortunately, it is very likely to hit its limitations before vram becomes an issue for most uses.

 

[Young Spade]

well it could potentially raise performance IF vram was actually the bottleneck of the Intel 3000 video card. Unfortunately, it is very likely to hit its limitations before vram becomes an issue for most uses.

As stated before, increasing RAM does not increase performance of the HD3000.

 

[RKpro]

No gaming boost, as others have said the graphics adapter is the bottleneck. Even if it increases vram, intel graphics are slow. On my PCs, when I increase the intel graphics shared vram in the bios, it doesn't increase performance.

But I'd get the 8GB anyway. It's nice to be able to run all my apps at the same time and not have the system slow down.

 

[shardey]

That doesn't mean anything though. The higher shared memory does NOT improve performance. You get the same gaming performance with 8 as you do with 6 as you do with 4.

Common misconception.

Well if you read it correctly, I said it MAY increase performance. Also increasing the vram in some instances, will increase performance, such as a game with higher resolution textures.

Common misunderstanding when you cannot read correctly.

 

[Wattser93]

The way I understand it, VRAM increases performance when running games at very high res, and clock speeds increase performance across the board.

There was a SC2 benchmark done where the increasing the VRAM from 256mb to 512mb only made a difference at 2560x1700 resolutions, and at 1920x1200 the difference was 1fps or less between them.