Man.. I forgot the days when extra vram was just marketing fluff to gamers. When the 3090 came out, I couldn't find anything to saturate it's vram by even a fraction of the total capacity. Nowadays Nvidia aren't even putting enough VRAM on cards to play entire games at graphical settings that would've otherwise been playable.
Excellent brief, answering the essential questions I had about feasibility. I have been a ramdrive user for years. Today's GPUs are way more powerful (and power-hungry) than I need (I'm fine with integrated graphics), but I wondered if a vramdrive would be even better than a ramdrive. So, thanks to your experiment, I now realize that investing in a GPU that has 12GB of GDDR6 would be a mistake. Integrated graphics plus a traditional ramdrive is cheaper with best performance and runs cooler, quieter, and less watts.
Power consumption aside an Rx 580 8gb can be had for 60usd shipped worldwide from AliExpress, less locally. Super interested in seeing how this would turn out on Radeon VII, with it's 16gb of hbm2. If power consumption is a concern, a Rx 6800 16gb might be good. And the rtx 4060ti 16gb will finally be good for something, although it's memory bandwidth is rubbish
I mean yeah, no shit. If you don't do anything that could take advantage of a GPU, then having one is a waste of power, heat, and money. But if you game or require any kind of graphical processing power, then a GPU is always going to be better, more efficient, cooler, and quieter. The only things it can't beat are price and power. Maybe it's counterintuitive because thermodynamics say more power = more heat, however because it's doing its work much more efficiently, it doesn't have to strain any one component. Basically, better efficiency = less heat to do the same work. In addition, you now have give or take double the surface area and cooling between both components. This means more fans but at a slower RPM, which results in less total dB.
No, it definitely goes back to hardware. When they made crysis 3, they had assumed the future was going to be higher and higher clock speeds. So when creating their game for the "future," they built it around that idea. Well, turns out not only did clock speeds not get much higher, but in some cases they even decreased. Basically to say, the game is optimized for a different kind of hardware that we don't have.
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I really like that you mentioned the alternate method and then immediately did it.
Another reason why I subscribed to this next level front end channel
damn... now i can use the other half of vram in my 3090
same but on my 5090 soon
Hehe, maybe I c-could try this on my g-gtx 1050 ti, hehe.. 😅
Man.. I forgot the days when extra vram was just marketing fluff to gamers. When the 3090 came out, I couldn't find anything to saturate it's vram by even a fraction of the total capacity. Nowadays Nvidia aren't even putting enough VRAM on cards to play entire games at graphical settings that would've otherwise been playable.
Maybe node_modules can be installed on ram too ^^
Not everyone understands
Okay. I found reason to buy Nvidia A100 with 80GB VRAM
I mounted four Nvidia A100 in SLI. It worked great ! ... but then I woke up.
Excellent brief, answering the essential questions I had about feasibility. I have been a ramdrive user for years. Today's GPUs are way more powerful (and power-hungry) than I need (I'm fine with integrated graphics), but I wondered if a vramdrive would be even better than a ramdrive. So, thanks to your experiment, I now realize that investing in a GPU that has 12GB of GDDR6 would be a mistake. Integrated graphics plus a traditional ramdrive is cheaper with best performance and runs cooler, quieter, and less watts.
Power consumption aside an Rx 580 8gb can be had for 60usd shipped worldwide from AliExpress, less locally.
Super interested in seeing how this would turn out on Radeon VII, with it's 16gb of hbm2.
If power consumption is a concern, a Rx 6800 16gb might be good.
And the rtx 4060ti 16gb will finally be good for something, although it's memory bandwidth is rubbish
I mean yeah, no shit. If you don't do anything that could take advantage of a GPU, then having one is a waste of power, heat, and money. But if you game or require any kind of graphical processing power, then a GPU is always going to be better, more efficient, cooler, and quieter. The only things it can't beat are price and power. Maybe it's counterintuitive because thermodynamics say more power = more heat, however because it's doing its work much more efficiently, it doesn't have to strain any one component. Basically, better efficiency = less heat to do the same work. In addition, you now have give or take double the surface area and cooling between both components. This means more fans but at a slower RPM, which results in less total dB.
A Radeon VII or rtx 4090 would be wild for this
Wait yall have graphic cards??
Nope,never had one.
🤔Wouldn't running it on regular ram be quicker?
please don't spoil it 😄
Lmao
Awesome video! Subbed!
What overlay is that for fps and vram?
MSI Afterburner with Riva Tuner (they install as a package).
Now do Starfield on a ram drive
Made for the unfortunates running on a single 120GB SSD.
NOT A PO*N MOVIE.....😂
the problem is the pc architecture here not the hardware.
No, it definitely goes back to hardware. When they made crysis 3, they had assumed the future was going to be higher and higher clock speeds. So when creating their game for the "future," they built it around that idea. Well, turns out not only did clock speeds not get much higher, but in some cases they even decreased. Basically to say, the game is optimized for a different kind of hardware that we don't have.
Lmao wtf