• Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    How is your idle VRAM (video RAM) holding? For some reason i have 1GB usage in Mint with Cinnamon without anything running, while on windows i have 400MB (although i have optimised them a lot).

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I’m not sure. I’m a photographer and comic. I switched to mint cause it’s easy, I’m not much of a computer person.

    • Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Why do you care?

      If I had to guess, VRAM is probably holding stuff as a cache.

      VRAM doesn’t use a lot of power and as long as you aren’t seeing out of memory issues, it doesn’t really matter.

      • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I’m gaming with an NVIDIA GPU, so my VRAM is kind of limited. I’m at my limits in games because the company cheaped out on VRAM in their GPUs after the 10 series.

    • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      400MB??? What do you have running? I never use more than 100 unless I open a game or something.