RAM consumption (Ubuntu, Mint). Who is less?

Question

Android

At home I use a laptop with Linux Mint and 8 GB of RAM. Usually all 100% of RAM + 4-6 GB of swap are occupied. That is, in normal operation, 10+ GB of RAM are used.
Working computer. It costs Ubuntu 15.10 and 32 GB of RAM. When performing all the same operations, I can not fill the RAM by more than 21%. That is, about 6.5 GB .
Software used: Google Chrome browser with a couple of dozen tabs and one to three instances of Android Studio with projects of varying complexity. The shell on both machines is Cinnamon.
The swap is on the SSD, so I don’t see any special brakes. Strains, rather, psychologically the very fact of lack of memory. Well, the wear of the SSD.
Question: does Mint eat almost twice as much RAM as plain Ubuntu?

Answer 1

Lubuntu - at startup 160 MB. Weeks through two - 1-2 gigabytes. If the browser is raped, no more than 4 gigs.
Why 32 gigs for desktop Linux - I don't have enough imagination, except to boast here.

Answer 2

My mint with phpstorm and chrome consumes from 3.5GB out of 6. And without phpstorm, no more than 1.2GB. There is no swap.