… As she mentions on her Pixelcluster's GPU Blog , if Linux spots that the GPU's VRAM is full likely because you have a few background apps open alongside a game , the OS will begin evicting VRAM data onto regular RAM. …
… Related Linux just made 8GB VRAM feel like enough for the Steam Machine One dedicated developer is making sure Linux stops stealing too much VRAM A five-year-old GPU delivers a console-tier experience It's closer to a PS5 than you might think If you stop obsessing over ultra presets and native or u… …
… MoE models aren't without compromises, but being able to fit a model inside a mid-range GPU is miles better than not being able to run it at all. Related High-VRAM GPUs aren't the future of local AI — unified memory and Mixture of Experts models are GPUs are fast, but they have limited RAM. …
… Modern games and their VRAM demands have ballooned egregiously, leading to a lot of people being convinced that GPUs with 8GB VRAM are obsolete now. While that's a separate and much longer conversation to be had, someone at Valve just decided that for Linux gamers, the game should come first. …
… A little while ago, we saw one of Valve's contractors, Natalie Vock, release a new tool that prevents Linux from stealing your VRAM . Beforehand, when Linux had to free up room on your GPU's VRAM and move data to RAM, it had no context for which blocks of data were assigned to which apps. …
… Related Linux just made 8GB VRAM feel like enough for the Steam Machine One dedicated developer is making sure Linux stops stealing too much VRAM An RX 7900 XT still has multiple benefits over an RX 9070 XT FSR 4.1 support only makes the deal sweeter Much like the RX 7900 XT, even the RX 9070 XT is… …
… Related Linux just made 8GB VRAM feel like enough for the Steam Machine One dedicated developer is making sure Linux stops stealing too much VRAM The Titan made everyone desire the "unobtainable" GPU It became the red Ferrari of GPUs Before the GTX Titan, the x80-class GeForce card was usually the … …
… Her work eventually led to tripling Alan Wake II's FPS on a Radeon RX 6500 XT , and because Linux is all about open-source, gamers don't need to pay a cent for the feature. Related A Valve engineer just stopped Linux from stealing VRAM from your 8GB GPU Games should run smoother now. …
… This way, you can run MoE models with limited VRAM and still get reliable token generation speeds. Thanks to the MoE offload technique, I was able to get 20+ tokens/s when prompting Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my RTX 3080 Ti – an outdated GPU with merely 12GB of VRAM. …
… Related 24GB VRAM should be the new minimum for most GPUs An old gaming GPU is the easiest home server upgrade around That GPU in the drawer isn't going to come back into your gaming rig anytime soon, and it's probably not going to fetch a meaningful price on the secondhand market. …
