Canadian man sees how many Google Chrome tabs you can open with 2TB of RAM on your computer
Published on Jan 13, 2026 at 4:59 PM (UTC+4)
by Ben Thompson
Last updated on Jan 13, 2026 at 4:59 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Mason Jones
This Canadian man wanted to see how many Google Chrome tabs he could keep open with 2TB of RAM on his computer.
We all know somebody who has endless numbers of tabs open on their computer at any given time.
Maybe that’s you and this article is just one of the dozens filling up your screen.
But is there an absolute limit? YouTuber Linus Tech Tips did some investigating to find out.
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How many Google Chrome tabs can you keep open on 2TB of RAM?
First of all, let’s get some IT definitions out of the way.
RAM is short for Random Access Memory, and is essentially your computer’s memory.
It stores data for the CPU (Central Processing Unit) to quickly access whilst running applications, operations, and files.
Linus wanted to see how many tabs he could have opened on Google Chrome before the RAM could take no more.
In order to accumulate 2TB of RAM, Linus would need to set up a whole system of high-capacity modules, each one capable of 128GB each.
He booted up the system, and saw that 2,097,152MB of RAM had been installed (aka 2TB), and that Windows 10 Pro’s maximum memory cap was exactly 2TB.
With everything in place, it was time to start opening up tabs on Google Chrome.
By the time he got to around 200 tabs open, he saw that Chrome had used around 10GB of RAM.
This figure reached 200GB around the time he’d opened 6,000 tabs – but this was still a long way off draining the 2TB completely.
If anything, the software limitations prove to be more of a problem than the memory, as the pages start freezing.
Google Chrome eventually becomes unusable, long before RAM is full.
At around the 6,000 tab mark, he draws the experiment to a close.
So, while the RAM could have taken more, the restraints of Google Chrome and Microsoft effectively capped how many tabs could be opened at once.
“We only managed to use about a tenth of our RAM, half of our CPU, but we reached architectural limits of the software itself,” Linus concluded.
“And 6,000 tabs is well beyond what is actually usable.”
This is just one of several experiments that Linus has conducted on his channel
Linus is a tech enthusiast, there’s no question about that.
In the past, he’s explored a lot of different facets of the tech world on his channel, whether it’s trying out every PlayStation , or using dial-up internet in 2025.
And who could forget about the time he played video games inside Vancouver’s Las Vegas-style Sphere?
Visit his YouTube channel to see more of his experiments.
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Following stints at LadBible, The Sun, The New York Post, and the Daily Mail, Ben joined the team full-time in February 2025. In his role as Senior Content Writer, his sparkling copy, the ability to sniff out a good story at 100 paces, and a GSOH quickly led to him becoming an integral and invaluable member of the writing staff.
