NBD-VRAM Provides Swap Space On Your NVIDIA GeForce GPUs Written by Michael Larabel in NVIDIA on 1 June 2026 at 05:57 AM EDT. 7 Comments An open-source developer has created NBD-VRAM as a way to create swap space on your consumer NVIDIA GPU's video memory under Linux. …
… The end result means far better game performance loss protection on Linux, especially on 8GB and lower VRAM. Related Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless Wine is the foundation that makes gaming on Linux possible.
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… NVIDIA has simply swapped the 2GB memory modules for 3GB chips and made no other changes. So, unless you are running VRAM-intensive tasks, you are unlikely to notice much difference between the two. …
… Games typically run faster on Linux due to the operating system consuming fewer resources, so debloating and better prioritising CPU, RAM and VRAM could make a small but significant difference here. …
… "Installing zram-generator & preload, configuring zstd compression, disabling disk swap, and cranking swappiness to 180 for snappy responsiveness." Swappiness, for the record, can go up to 200 on modern kernels, so 180 is technically valid. …
… My system only had 8GB of memory, and I’d assigned 5GB to the LXC, which would end up starving it for RAM, and the 512MB of swap file didn’t help, either. So, I upped the RAM to a whopping 7GB before tossing an additional 3GB swap allocation. …
… It features a "massive copper cooler" with a dual-cold-plate design, one for the GPU die and one for the VRM/VRAM. The VRM/VRAM-Coldplate alone weighs over 900 grams and is built with custom CNC machining to enhance heat transfer and thermal performance. …
… 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to the MoE offload technique, I was able to get 20+ tokens/s when prompting Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my RTX 3080 Ti – an outdated GPU with merely 12GB of VRAM. …