… System RAM and GPU VRAM work together to hold game data, assets, and textures, but if a game exceeds your graphics card’s VRAM capacity, then the operating system OS has to swap data with slower system memory. This can lead to stuttering, texture/asset pop-in, and sudden performance tanking. …
… Add in sprawling open worlds and increasingly AI assisted rendering techniques, and the result is a workload that easily overwhelms traditional memory limits. The problem is that when GPU memory can’t hold all this data at once, the system is forced to constantly swap assets in and out. …
… Why This Matters in Everyday Systems Program execution: When you launch an application, it typically gets loaded from slower, non-volatile storage into fast, volatile memory so that the CPU can manipulate it as quickly and as efficiently as possible; Caches: Modern CPUs exploit data locality — rece… …