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I've seen adobe Lightroom take 16-20gb on my desktop while importing photos from my camera.
Now, there are other things you could do with it if you wanna take the time to learn/set it up. Such as using mapping a VM filesystem only to the ram (of course, the machine has to stay on and you'll lose everything there with a power failure) or moving system files or other heavily used shit there (games/whatever) post boot for extra speed - but, again, no power = death to the whole thing.
On a Linux machine for example, it's going to create a swap partition that's 2x the size of the ram for paging by default (page file in Windows) if you have enough ram you never need to touch swap/storage - ram is faster.
Regular users? No. I'd consider 16 the minimum at this point though. At work we have thousands that were purchased with 8 and it's way not enough - they're being piecemeal upgraded to 16 w/ an extra stick. When ram is being shared for other shit too, like integrated video, and it's maxed out, it can create other issues.
It's not simply about the hardware of consumer grade graphics card being capable of performing the computations, but about the unique software and additional support that comes with the professional level workstation graphics card. If hardware was the only consideration, then there is little reason for companies to get a professional graphics card that costs 5x-10x than a consumer grade graphics card that has most of the hardware capabilities.
I've worked for companies that specalized in architectural-engineering and scientific (computations for biochemistry) related professions and almost everybody were using professional grade workstation graphics cards. This includes companies where the tech team were using consumer grade graphics cards for their personal computers and using workstation professional cards for the company's work computers...so they clearly knew about and were familiar with consumer grade graphics cards.
Now, there are other things you could do with it if you wanna take the time to learn/set it up. Such as using mapping a VM filesystem only to the ram (of course, the machine has to stay on and you'll lose everything there with a power failure) or moving system files or other heavily used shit there (games/whatever) post boot for extra speed - but, again, no power = death to the whole thing.
On a Linux machine for example, it's going to create a swap partition that's 2x the size of the ram for paging by default (page file in Windows) if you have enough ram you never need to touch swap/storage - ram is faster.
Regular users? No. I'd consider 16 the minimum at this point though. At work we have thousands that were purchased with 8 and it's way not enough - they're being piecemeal upgraded to 16 w/ an extra stick. When ram is being shared for other shit too, like integrated video, and it's maxed out, it can create other issues.
Yeh, 8GB is definitely insufficient for main computers these days and 16GB to 32GB seems to be the sweet spot for the vast majority of consumers.
It's not simply about the hardware of consumer grade graphics card being capable of performing the computations, but about the unique software and additional support that comes with the professional level workstation graphics card. If hardware was the only consideration, then there is little reason for companies to get a professional graphics card that costs 5x-10x than a consumer grade graphics card that has most of the hardware capabilities.
I've worked for companies that specalized in architectural-engineering and scientific (computations for biochemistry) related professions and almost everybody were using professional grade workstation graphics cards. This includes companies where the tech team were using consumer grade graphics cards for their personal computers and using workstation professional cards for the company's work computers...so they clearly knew about and were familiar with consumer grade graphics cards.
Your reasoning is not sufficient for your conclusion.
Your conclusion is "Because industrial/scientific/math-calculations/etc type users typically don't get consumer grade graphics cards."
And your proof is that the company you worked for has certain setup.
But does your company really represent typically industrial/scientific/math-calculations/etc type users?
Aren't MATLAB users also industrial/scientific/math-calculations/etc type users?
Aren't PYTHON users also scientific/math-calculations/etc type users?
A few companies in a few fields have shitty GPU support does not translate to "industrial/scientific/math-calculations/etc type users" typically can only choose professional card.
Also, based on this comment and a few previous ones, It's obvious your company does not really handle much data. So please leave user superaven alone. He/She, very likely, understands what is needed better than you.
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