noIf you're at the desktop chances are you don't need 8GiB, 12GiB, 16GiB or 24GiB of VRAM. Is there anyway to put it to use for other purposes? Can firefox/chrome/edge use VRAM instead of system RAM for their purposes?
Processor | AMD R9 5900X |
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Motherboard | Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero |
Cooling | Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 V3 1x TL-B12, 2x TL-C12 Pro, 2x TL K12 |
Memory | 2x8 G.Skill Trident Z Royal 3200C14, 2x8GB G.Skill Trident Z Black and White 3200 C14 |
Video Card(s) | Zotac 4070 Ti Trinity OC |
Storage | WD SN850 1TB, SN850X 2TB, Asus Hyper M.2, 2x SN770 1TB |
Display(s) | LG 50UP7100 |
Case | Fractal Torrent Compact RGB |
Audio Device(s) | JBL 2.1 Deep Bass |
Power Supply | EVGA SuperNova 750w G+, Monster HDP1800 |
Mouse | Logitech G502 Hero |
Keyboard | Logitech G213 |
VR HMD | Oculus 3 |
Software | Yes |
Benchmark Scores | Yes |
System Name | His & Hers |
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Processor | R7 5800X/ R9 5950X Stock |
Motherboard | X570 Aorus Master/ROG Crosshair VIII Hero |
Cooling | Corsair h150 elite/ Corsair h115i Platinum |
Memory | 32 GB 4x8GB 4000CL15 Trident Z Royal/ 32 GB 3200 CL14 @3800 CL16 Team T Force Nighthawk |
Video Card(s) | Evga FTW 3 Ultra 3080ti/ Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 |
Storage | lots of SSD. |
Display(s) | LG G2 65/LG C1 48/ LG 27GP850/ MSI 27 inch VA panel 1440p165hz |
Case | 011 Dynamic XL/ Phanteks Evolv X |
Audio Device(s) | Arctis Pro + gaming Dac/ Corsair sp 2500/ Logitech G560/Samsung Q990B |
Power Supply | Seasonic Ultra Prime Titanium 1000w/850w |
Mouse | Logitech G502 Lightspeed/ Logitech G Pro Hero. |
Keyboard | Corsair K95 RGB Platinum/ Logitech G Pro |
You could give it to me..
Processor | AMD R9 5900X |
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Motherboard | Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero |
Cooling | Thermalright Aqua Elite 360 V3 1x TL-B12, 2x TL-C12 Pro, 2x TL K12 |
Memory | 2x8 G.Skill Trident Z Royal 3200C14, 2x8GB G.Skill Trident Z Black and White 3200 C14 |
Video Card(s) | Zotac 4070 Ti Trinity OC |
Storage | WD SN850 1TB, SN850X 2TB, Asus Hyper M.2, 2x SN770 1TB |
Display(s) | LG 50UP7100 |
Case | Fractal Torrent Compact RGB |
Audio Device(s) | JBL 2.1 Deep Bass |
Power Supply | EVGA SuperNova 750w G+, Monster HDP1800 |
Mouse | Logitech G502 Hero |
Keyboard | Logitech G213 |
VR HMD | Oculus 3 |
Software | Yes |
Benchmark Scores | Yes |
I need a new GPU for my boy, well for me I guess.. and he could have this one.. but I am feeling mighty stingy these daysIf I could give you 8GB from my 4090 I would it will be relegated to 1440p duties whenever 50 series comes out most likely anyways....
System Name | System2 Blacknet , System1 Blacknet2 |
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Processor | System2 Threadripper 1920x, System1 2699 v3 |
Motherboard | System2 Asrock Fatality x399 Professional Gaming, System1 Asus X99-A |
Cooling | System2 Noctua NH-U14 TR4-SP3 Dual 140mm fans, System1 AIO |
Memory | System2 64GBS DDR4 3000, System1 32gbs DDR4 2400 |
Video Card(s) | System2 GTX 980Ti System1 GTX 970 |
Storage | System2 4x SSDs + NVme= 2.250TB 2xStorage Drives=8TB System1 3x SSDs=2TB |
Display(s) | 2x 24" 1080 displays |
Case | System2 Some Nzxt case with soundproofing... |
Audio Device(s) | Asus Xonar U7 MKII |
Power Supply | System2 EVGA 750 Watt, System1 XFX XTR 750 Watt |
Mouse | Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum |
Keyboard | Ducky |
Software | Manjaro, Windows 10, Kubuntu 23.10 |
Benchmark Scores | It's linux baby! |
System Name | MSI GT77HX |
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Processor | Intel i9-13980HX |
Memory | 64 GB DDR5 @ 4800 mhz |
Video Card(s) | NVIDIA RTX 4090 Mobile |
Storage | 2 TB 980 Pro |
Display(s) | 4K/144 Hz Mini-LED |
Benchmark Scores | 23,616 Timespy Graphics |
System Name | Veral |
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Processor | 5950x |
Motherboard | MSI MEG x570 Ace |
Cooling | Corsair H150i RGB Elite |
Memory | 4x16GB G.Skill TridentZ |
Video Card(s) | Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil |
Storage | Crucial P5 Plus 1TB, Samsung 980 1TB, Teamgroup MP34 4TB |
Display(s) | Acer Nitro XZ342CK Pbmiiphx + 2x AOC 2425W |
Case | Fractal Design Meshify Lite 2 |
Audio Device(s) | Blue Yeti + SteelSeries Arctis 5 / Samsung HW-T550 |
Power Supply | Corsair HX850 |
Mouse | Corsair Nightsword |
Keyboard | Corsair K55 |
VR HMD | HP Reverb G2 |
Software | Windows 11 Professional |
Benchmark Scores | PEBCAK |
System Name | Rocinante |
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Processor | I9 14900KS |
Motherboard | EVGA z690 Dark KINGPIN (modded BIOS) |
Cooling | EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB |
Memory | 64GB Gskill Trident Z5 DDR5 6000 @6400 |
Video Card(s) | MSI SUPRIM Liquid X 4090 |
Storage | 1x 500GB 980 Pro | 1x 1TB 980 Pro | 1x 8TB Corsair MP400 |
Display(s) | Odyssey OLED G9 G95SC |
Case | Lian Li o11 Evo Dynamic White |
Audio Device(s) | Moondrop S8's on Schiit Hel 2e |
Power Supply | Bequiet! Power Pro 12 1500w |
Mouse | Lamzu Atlantis mini (White) |
Keyboard | Monsgeek M3 Lavender, Akko Crystal Blues |
VR HMD | Quest 3 |
Software | Windows 11 |
Benchmark Scores | I dont have time for that. |
System Name | His & Hers |
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Processor | R7 5800X/ R9 5950X Stock |
Motherboard | X570 Aorus Master/ROG Crosshair VIII Hero |
Cooling | Corsair h150 elite/ Corsair h115i Platinum |
Memory | 32 GB 4x8GB 4000CL15 Trident Z Royal/ 32 GB 3200 CL14 @3800 CL16 Team T Force Nighthawk |
Video Card(s) | Evga FTW 3 Ultra 3080ti/ Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 |
Storage | lots of SSD. |
Display(s) | LG G2 65/LG C1 48/ LG 27GP850/ MSI 27 inch VA panel 1440p165hz |
Case | 011 Dynamic XL/ Phanteks Evolv X |
Audio Device(s) | Arctis Pro + gaming Dac/ Corsair sp 2500/ Logitech G560/Samsung Q990B |
Power Supply | Seasonic Ultra Prime Titanium 1000w/850w |
Mouse | Logitech G502 Lightspeed/ Logitech G Pro Hero. |
Keyboard | Corsair K95 RGB Platinum/ Logitech G Pro |
run stable diffusion I run out of vram frequently /cry
System Name | Nebulon-B Mk. 4 |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
Motherboard | MSi PRO B650M-A WiFi |
Cooling | be quiet! Dark Rock 4 |
Memory | 2x 24 GB Corsair Vengeance EXPO DDR5-6000 |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 7800 XT |
Storage | 2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 2 TB Corsair MP600 R2, 4 + 8 TB Seagate Barracuda 3.5" |
Display(s) | Dell S3422DWG, 7" Waveshare touchscreen |
Case | Kolink Citadel Mesh black |
Power Supply | Seasonic Prime GX-750 |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 2S |
Keyboard | Logitech G413 SE |
Software | Windows 10 Pro |
Benchmark Scores | Cinebench R23 single-core: 1,800, multi-core: 18,000. Superposition 1080p Extreme: 9,900. |
Processor | 3900x - Bykski waterblock |
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Motherboard | MSI b450m mortar max BIOS Date 27 Apr 2023 |
Cooling | αcool 560 rad - 2xPhanteks F140XP |
Memory | Micron 32gb 3200mhz ddr4 |
Video Card(s) | Colorful 3090 ADOC active backplate cooling |
Storage | WD SN850 2tb ,HP EX950 1tb, WD UltraStar Helioseal 18tb+18tb |
Display(s) | 24“ HUION pro 4k 10bit |
Case | aluminium extrusions copper panels, 60 deliveries for every piece down to screws |
Audio Device(s) | sony stereo mic, logitech c930, Gulikit pro 2 + xbox Series S controller, moded bt headphone 1200mAh |
Power Supply | Corsair RM1000x |
Mouse | pen display, no mouse no click |
Keyboard | Microsoft aio media embedded touchpad (moded lithium battery 1000mAh) |
Software | Win 11 23h2 build 22631 |
Benchmark Scores | cine23 20000 |
System ram can be used as vram, but not vice versa.Why would you want to use VRAM when it's not needed?
This question sounds to me a bit like "my race car has 800 HP, it's there any way to use all of it on public roads?"
The answer isn't just "no", but also "why".
Why would you want to use VRAM when it's not needed?
This question sounds to me a bit like "my race car has 800 HP, it's there any way to use all of it on public roads?"
The answer isn't just "no", but also "why".
Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D |
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Motherboard | Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero |
Cooling | Custom Watercooling |
Memory | G.Skill Trident Z Royal 2x16GB |
Video Card(s) | MSi RTX 3080ti Suprim X |
Storage | 2TB Corsair MP600 PRO Hydro X |
Display(s) | Samsung G7 27" x2 |
Audio Device(s) | Sound Blaster ZxR |
Power Supply | Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 12 1500W |
Mouse | Logitech G903 |
Keyboard | Steelseries Apex Pro |
For any modern game you are most likely going to run into some new, exciting bottlenecks. You are suddenly sending large amounts of non-graphics data both ways over PCIe. You could, for once, end up saturating the PCIe x16 bus. The GPU have to do double work reading/writing generic data to VRAM, which it is not optimised to do. Memory controllers suddenly have to do other tasks than feeding the GPU data at lightning speed. Just because VRAM have higher clocks than system RAM, does not mean the real world performance is better. There are tons of other factors in that equation. A GPU and by extension VRAM was never designed to be used as general storage. VRAM is specifically made for graphics performance, hence the G in GDDRx. Which obviously make it faster than DDRx memory for graphics. But there is a reason your system RAM is not GDDRx, and cheap GPUs with DDRx ram as VRAM have crap memory performance.This is really cool to see, VRAM is the fastest memory-solution in your system, exceeding the performance of system RAM, so using it as an SSD should yield some amazing loading times for video games. And theoretically, you can do this with any graphics card, as long as the game fits inside your GPU's frame buffer.
Says it all really.You can swim in a glass of water if it's big enough, but you can't drink the ocean.
System Name | Not a thread ripper but pretty good. |
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Processor | Ryzen 9 5950x |
Motherboard | ASRock X570 Taichi (revision 1.06, BIOS/UEFI version P5.50) |
Cooling | EK-Quantum Velocity, EK-Quantum Reflection PC-O11, EK-CoolStream PE 360, XSPC TX360 |
Memory | Micron DDR4-3200 ECC Unbuffered Memory (4 sticks, 128GB, 18ASF4G72AZ-3G2F1) |
Video Card(s) | XFX Radeon RX 5700 & EK-Quantum Vector Radeon RX 5700 +XT & Backplate |
Storage | Samsung 2TB 980 PRO 2TB Gen4x4 NVMe, 2 x Samsung 2TB 970 EVO Plus Gen3x4 NVMe |
Display(s) | 2 x 4K LG 27UL600-W (and HUANUO Dual Monitor Mount) |
Case | Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic Black (original model) |
Power Supply | Corsair RM750x |
Mouse | Logitech M575 |
Keyboard | Corsair Strafe RGB MK.2 |
Software | Windows 10 Professional (64bit) |
Benchmark Scores | Typical for non-overclocked CPU. |
Back in the primitive days of CGA/VGA someone I know figured out how to steal/repurpose video card memory for applications.If you're at the desktop chances are you don't need 8GiB, 12GiB, 16GiB or 24GiB of VRAM. Is there anyway to put it to use for other purposes? Can firefox/chrome/edge use VRAM instead of system RAM for their purposes?
System Name | Work Computer | Unfinished Computer |
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Processor | Core i7-6700 | Ryzen 5 5600X |
Motherboard | Dell Q170 | Gigabyte Aorus Elite Wi-Fi |
Cooling | A fan? | Truly Custom Loop |
Memory | 4x4GB Crucial 2133 C17 | 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance RGB 3600 C26 |
Video Card(s) | Dell Radeon R7 450 | RTX 2080 Ti FE |
Storage | Crucial BX500 2TB | TBD |
Display(s) | 3x LG QHD 32" GSM5B96 | TBD |
Case | Dell | Heavily Modified Phanteks P400 |
Power Supply | Dell TFX Non-standard | EVGA BQ 650W |
Mouse | Monster No-Name $7 Gaming Mouse| TBD |
Processor | i5-6600K |
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Motherboard | Asus Z170A |
Cooling | some cheap Cooler Master Hyper 103 or similar |
Memory | 16GB DDR4-2400 |
Video Card(s) | IGP |
Storage | Samsung 850 EVO 250GB |
Display(s) | 2x Oldell 24" 1920x1200 |
Case | Bitfenix Nova white windowless non-mesh |
Audio Device(s) | E-mu 1212m PCI |
Power Supply | Seasonic G-360 |
Mouse | Logitech Marble trackball, never had a mouse |
Keyboard | Key Tronic KT2000, no Win key because 1994 |
Software | Oldwin |
This seems like a sensible use of VRAM. Chrome tabs use huge amounts of system RAM - why is that, what exactly is stored there? Uncompressed JPGs? Pre-rendered pages or parts of pages? All of those could as well sit in VRAM.browser cache?
Processor | 3900x - Bykski waterblock |
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Motherboard | MSI b450m mortar max BIOS Date 27 Apr 2023 |
Cooling | αcool 560 rad - 2xPhanteks F140XP |
Memory | Micron 32gb 3200mhz ddr4 |
Video Card(s) | Colorful 3090 ADOC active backplate cooling |
Storage | WD SN850 2tb ,HP EX950 1tb, WD UltraStar Helioseal 18tb+18tb |
Display(s) | 24“ HUION pro 4k 10bit |
Case | aluminium extrusions copper panels, 60 deliveries for every piece down to screws |
Audio Device(s) | sony stereo mic, logitech c930, Gulikit pro 2 + xbox Series S controller, moded bt headphone 1200mAh |
Power Supply | Corsair RM1000x |
Mouse | pen display, no mouse no click |
Keyboard | Microsoft aio media embedded touchpad (moded lithium battery 1000mAh) |
Software | Win 11 23h2 build 22631 |
Benchmark Scores | cine23 20000 |
that's the last nail in my coffin. you proved me wrong.Linux has the capability of moving the swapfile to VRAM, which would've worked great for this old box.
I should never say that again.System ram can be used as vram, but not vice versa.
Cpu can do graphics, but graphic processor can't handle general stuff.
You can swim in a glass of water if it's big enough, but you can't drink the ocean. @80251
System Name | MightyX |
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Processor | Ryzen 5800X3D |
Motherboard | Gigabyte X570 I Aorus Pro WiFi |
Cooling | Scythe Fuma 2 |
Memory | 32GB DDR4 3600 CL16 |
Video Card(s) | Asus TUF RTX3080 Deshrouded |
Storage | WD Black SN850X 2TB |
Display(s) | LG 42C2 4K OLED |
Case | Coolermaster NR200P |
Audio Device(s) | LG SN5Y / Focal Clear |
Power Supply | Corsair SF750 Platinum |
Mouse | Corsair Dark Core RBG Pro SE |
Keyboard | Glorious GMMK Compact w/pudding |
VR HMD | Meta Quest 3 |
Software | case populated with Artic P12's |
Benchmark Scores | 4k120 OLED Gsync bliss |
System Name | Black MC in Tokyo |
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Processor | Ryzen 5 5600 |
Motherboard | Asrock B450M-HDV |
Cooling | Be Quiet! Pure Rock 2 |
Memory | 2 x 16GB Kingston Fury 3400mhz |
Video Card(s) | XFX 6950XT Speedster MERC 319 |
Storage | Kingston A400 240GB | WD Black SN750 2TB |WD Blue 1TB x 2 | Toshiba P300 2TB | Seagate Expansion 8TB |
Display(s) | Samsung U32J590U 4K + BenQ GL2450HT 1080p |
Case | Fractal Design Define R4 |
Audio Device(s) | Line6 UX1 + some headphones, Nektar SE61 keyboard |
Power Supply | Corsair RM850x v3 |
Mouse | Logitech G602 |
Keyboard | Cherry MX Board 1.0 TKL Brown |
VR HMD | Acer Mixed Reality Headset |
Software | Windows 10 Pro |
Benchmark Scores | Rimworld 4K ready! |
I was really thinking that I could maybe use one of my spare 1080ti's for my mother's computer (which only has 8 GiB of system RAM) and maybe throw the pagefile and TEMP directory onto the 1080ti.
Processor | intel 12700k |
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Motherboard | asus |
Cooling | noctua d15s |
Memory | 64gb |
Video Card(s) | 4090 |
Storage | 4tb m.2 |
Display(s) | 27" 1440p 240hz oled |
Case | fractal define s |
Audio Device(s) | minidsp shd studio and hifi speakers |
Software | windows 11 |
Processor | i7 8700k 4.6Ghz @ 1.24V |
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Motherboard | AsRock Fatal1ty K6 Z370 |
Cooling | beQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 |
Memory | 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200/C16 |
Video Card(s) | ASRock RX7900XT Phantom Gaming |
Storage | Samsung 850 EVO 1TB + Samsung 830 256GB + Crucial BX100 250GB + Toshiba 1TB HDD |
Display(s) | Gigabyte G34QWC (3440x1440) |
Case | Fractal Design Define R5 |
Audio Device(s) | Harman Kardon AVR137 + 2.1 |
Power Supply | EVGA Supernova G2 750W |
Mouse | XTRFY M42 |
Keyboard | Lenovo Thinkpad Trackpoint II |
Software | W10 x64 |
They always do, until they get released and you're quickly going to wonder why you waited in the first place.or maybe just wait for 50 series.. looks pretty serious..