> Built for laptops with soldered memory and no upgrade path. If you have an RTX card sitting there with 8GB of VRAM and you're getting swapped to SSD, this puts that VRAM to work.
Well, that does at least answer my immediate question about why I would ever swap from expensive RAM to really expensive RAM:) Feels niche, but when you want it it's a good idea.
Remember how 16GBs used to be an enterprise level database mainframe?
Well, GPUs also have stupid amounts of compute on them. I have to imagine that there is some kind of database format that's useful with GPU compute attached.
Since the data is already in VRAM, the GPU can sort, join, or otherwise manipulate data as needed.
Wouldn't it be faster to swap to vram if you are sitting there with 8gigs of it unused than swapping to ssd and burning its write cycles, assuming you absolutely need swap
> Built for laptops with soldered memory and no upgrade path. If you have an RTX card sitting there with 8GB of VRAM and you're getting swapped to SSD, this puts that VRAM to work.
Well, that does at least answer my immediate question about why I would ever swap from expensive RAM to really expensive RAM:) Feels niche, but when you want it it's a good idea.
Given my dev machine has 32GB of RAM and 32GB of VRAM that sits mostly idle when I'm not running AI models, this is not that bad of an idea.
I'm more interested in the opposite. Nvidia linux drivers crash when you try to address more VRAM than you have. It'd be nice if they didn't.
Remember how 16GBs used to be an enterprise level database mainframe?
Well, GPUs also have stupid amounts of compute on them. I have to imagine that there is some kind of database format that's useful with GPU compute attached.
Since the data is already in VRAM, the GPU can sort, join, or otherwise manipulate data as needed.
RAM disks have always fascinated me. In a different timeline every PC has a 100gb of RAM and 50TB HDDs are the norm.
You want to waste VRAM, in this economy?
Q: Why? A: Why not?
I mean, cool, but I’d rather not?
So don't. Not everything is for you.
Wouldn't it be faster to swap to vram if you are sitting there with 8gigs of it unused than swapping to ssd and burning its write cycles, assuming you absolutely need swap
So, erm, don't?