RAM usage still matters a lot. Not only because consoles, also because RAM usage often translates to storage bandwidth, and CPU-GPU bandwidth. Some of the tric

RAM usage still matters a lot. Not only because consoles, also because RAM usage often translates to storage bandwidth, and CPU-GPU bandwidth. Some of the tricks still apply today. For example, modern GPUs support all kinds of weird texture formats. Here’s a link for PC: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh308955(v=vs.85).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh3... Other platforms have conceptually similar stuff.