8GB vs 16GB RAM for Rust: 16GB is the new minimum to reduce stuttering

16GB gives Rust room to breathe and avoids constant swapping to disk that causes hitches, while 8GB isn’t enough anymore. Same goes for Tarkov and DayZ—they’re poorly optimized memory hogs. But stuttering isn’t always RAM; a CPU, GPU, or slow storage bottleneck can still cause it. Going from 8GB to 16GB is the single biggest upgrade for these games right now, and 32GB is overkill unless you run a hundred browser tabs.