I searched a bit and you seem to be correct, lol. Nvidia never implemented GTT (15 years after it was introduced in the kernel). But the feature from the article is still not exclusive to AMD, Intel should work as well.
RADV is a driver for AMD cards. The linked blog post https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/ title is “Fixing AMDGPU’s VRAM management for low-end GPUs” and the word nvidia does not appear once in it. Unless I am misunderstanding this, it looks like AMD only. If anyone has direct confirmation that this works on Nvidia too (proprietary or open source drivers), I will update my previous replies to reflect that.
Noteworthy its for AMD graphics cards only.
One of the many benefits of having open source drivers, like RADV
It was the right choice to switch to AMD. But the future of Nvidia Open Source seems not that bad, as they are improving in that front too.
Are you sure? Nothing in the dev’s blog post alludes to that, aside from being tested on AMD.
GTT (gpu swap) is handled by the gpu driver, so only nvidia can see if they can add it to their closed source drivers. radv is the amd vulkan driver.
I searched a bit and you seem to be correct, lol. Nvidia never implemented GTT (15 years after it was introduced in the kernel). But the feature from the article is still not exclusive to AMD, Intel should work as well.
Does Intel even have the same issue? Maybe this is an issue with AMD only. Wish they had been more explicit about the other brands and drivers.
RADV is a driver for AMD cards. The linked blog post https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/ title is “Fixing AMDGPU’s VRAM management for low-end GPUs” and the word
nvidiadoes not appear once in it. Unless I am misunderstanding this, it looks like AMD only. If anyone has direct confirmation that this works on Nvidia too (proprietary or open source drivers), I will update my previous replies to reflect that.