Shared Vram on linux --- super huge problem

[dartefi]

Is there like a Pre-Alpha 580 driver I can test for verifying that System backed VRAM on linux (does or doesn’t) work … is this even being worked on? There is a major post on this with absolutely NO response from NVIDIA …

Non-existent shared VRAM on NVIDIA Linux drivers

The NVIDIA Linux driver doesn’t handle the VRAM sharing with the system RAM. What I’m exactly referring to is this: Windows 10 Task Manager in GPU section As can be seen, there is the “Dedicated GPU memory” and the “Shared GPU memory” that is actual system RAM but shared with the GPU, so in case the GPU runs out of VRAM, the system or game doesn’t simply crash or have a drop in FPS. So what is the problem then? The problem is that the “Shared GPU memory” doesn’t exist on the NVIDIA Linux dri…

Intel and AMD can do it …

[dartefi]

@aplattner

@amrits

@vanditd

@vrachatte

ANYBODY !?

[a.eslampanah]

I don’t know why this isn’t a priority for them, the majority of people this affects are professional users; people in ML/AI fields and for those fields Linux seems more popular..

[bilandzijad]

Absolute tragedy of customer care