Upgrade to 16GB on your Hackintosh. It's worth it.

Yes, going from 8GB to 16GB will make your Hackintosh noticeably more stable and snappier.

macOS is a memory hog. With 8GB, you’re constantly hitting swap, which means your SSD (or worse, HDD) gets hammered. That causes stutters, beach balls, and occasional kernel panics. OpenCore doesn’t change memory management — the OS still needs RAM. 16GB gives macOS room to breathe, cache apps, and keep a dozen browser tabs open without crashing into swap.

App loading times improve because the OS can keep more stuff in memory instead of fishing it off disk. If you use any developer tools, Docker, or even a few Adobe apps, 8GB is torture. 16GB is the minimum I’d run on any modern macOS machine, real or not. Just make sure you add matching sticks or a matched kit — mismatched RAM can cause OpenCore boot issues or instability on its