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. …
… 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. …
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… FX artists and motion graphics professionals can render complex scenes with massive texture sets entirely in VRAM, eliminating the disk-swapping bottlenecks that plague productions using 8K footage or high-polygon environments. …
… The RTX 3070 is oddly faster presumably due to driver immaturity , but it tops out at 9.6fps. The RTX 3080, in contrast, hits 31.4fps even in native 4K mode. The 3.27x gap between RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 performance in native 4K is perfectly explained by the RTX 3070 running out of VRAM. …
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… But the RTX Pro 6000 is another bump above that, built for demanding server and workstation tasks that require the right tools, regardless of cost. Even at the reduced price since launch, it's still over twice the cost of a RTX 5090, but then again if you absolutely need the VRAM, it has no equal.
… 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. …
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