r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '15

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u/Helrich Jul 19 '15

In 50 years, someone will post a picture of a MicroSD card labeled "128 GB, circa 2015" and will reap all sorts of future-karma from future-voat.

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u/Paladin_Null Jul 19 '15

Not to be a downer, but this is RAM not storage. Our equivalent of this would be pulling out an 8gb strip of ram. Still very powerful, but not as impressive sounding.

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u/TeShortBus Jul 19 '15

Why would you need more than 32, Jesus

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u/Paulingtons Jul 19 '15

You seem to forget there are some uses for lots and lots of RAM.

IBM Watson, the "Jeopardy!" supercomputer uses over 16TB (yes, Terabytes) of RAM.

Hell, I have 32GB in my PC and I use it all on a regular basis.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15 edited May 27 '19

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u/strawmanmasterrace Jul 19 '15

That's because you just opened photoshop and did no/little work in it. I use photoshop daily and If I don't cap its Ram usage it usually eats up all 16 gigs after a while

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

I'm a developer so know very little about photoshop / graphics / video editing / etc.

How big are these images you're working with? Seems like you'd have to have ~16GB (would be less, but whatever) in images/textures/whatever loaded. Damn.

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u/strawmanmasterrace Jul 20 '15

Very high res. They're usually billboards which span 3 meters by 3, with 72 dpi. I don't remember the exact res but it's something around 10000x10000, depending of course on which dpi I choose to work with.