The price for the GeForce RTX 3090 seems overpriced for a gaming card, especially since 24 GB will hardly be fully used in games soon … Or is it not? A certain Strife212 tweeted the idea to use this 24GB buffer to run Crysis 3, but not in the usual way.
Using a program called VRAM Drive, the enthusiast created a 15 GB NTFS virtual drive directly in the GeForce RTX 3090 video memory, and then installed Crysis 3 on it. The remaining 9 GB the game could use as usual graphics memory, which is enough for any project by today’s standards. …
The enthusiast reports that Crysis 3 loads quickly and the performance is really good (75 fps in the screenshot). Strife212 launched Crysis 3 with very high settings at 4K resolution, with total video memory usage barely hitting the 20GB mark.
I installed Crysis 3 on my graphics card!
I used some VRAMdrive software called GPU Ram Drive, made a 15GB NTFS partition on the GPU, then installed Crysis 3 on it
At 4K very high settings get good fps and the game loads very fast – GPU-Z reports total VRAM use 20434MB pic.twitter.com/lLcQsD5JYM
– Strife, the revolutionary girl (@ Strife212) October 4, 2020
This is really interesting, because today video memory is the fastest data storage in the system, which surpasses performance and RAM, and even more so, SSD. Using it as a storage device should provide amazing loading times for games. And in theory, this can be done with any graphics card as long as the game fits into the GPU buffer.
However, the real application for this method is questionable: modern NVMe SSDs load games very quickly, and this use of memory looks very niche (in addition, additional software features like RTX I / O should further reduce load times).
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