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minus-squarePieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoWhy 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.
minus-squareKyden Fumofly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoI’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.
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.
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.