32GB RAM helps with heavy mods.

Yes, noticeably.

Open-world games are already memory hungry. Stack high-res texture mods on top—something like Skyrim with 4K retextures or GTA V with maxed-out LOD—and 16GB can hit its ceiling fast. When RAM fills up, the system starts swapping data to your SSD or HDD, and that micro-stutter you feel is the game waiting on storage. 32GB gives breathing room so those massive texture files stay in fast memory.

It’s not a magic bullet. If your GPU is choking on VRAM or your storage is a slow hard drive, you’ll still get stutters. But for the specific case of high texture mods in large worlds, 32GB is the difference between smooth and annoying hitches.

If you’re already spending money on texture mods, 32GB is a sensible upgrade.