Applying texture takes too much memory

[atul161]

I am building and applying material and textures at runtime. Initially, my profiler shows a memory hike of 200 Mb. But after applying texture it goes to 1.3 GB and also it comes to normal when I destroy objects.

Is this memory hike is normal when we apply textures and materials?

Is there any way to minimise this?

[romainguy]

Textures do take up a lot of memory. Make sure you use the lowest resolution you need. You can also use compressed texture formats.

[atul161]

Thanks @romainguy !