title = “You can’t upgrade your PS4’s RAM” type = “.report.” source_topic = “Console Upgrades”

You can’t upgrade your PS4’s RAM.

No, there is no way to upgrade the PS4’s 8GB of GDDR5 shared memory to 16GB. It’s soldered directly to the motherboard, not a standard DIMM slot you can swap out. Even if you had the soldering skills of a NASA engineer, the system firmware and games are hardwired to expect exactly 8GB. More RAM wouldn’t help — the bottleneck is the old Jaguar