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p_l 62 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux

You mean Chrome? (Looking at the 5GiB usage here...)

Wowfunhappy 61 days ago [–]

Google Chrome is using 5 GB of VRAM?! Are you running something with WebGPU or something?

p_l 61 days ago | [–]

It's called prerendering tabs or something :V

At 4k it adds up, especially since if you look into DevTools Chrome actually renders more at least vertically if not across major scroll regions.

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