Crysis 3 can be installed to the RTX3090's VRAM and still run at 4K

[Dkylem18]

Strife212 has partitioned out about 15GB's of the RTX 3090's VRAM, and installed Crysis 3 to it. The card was still able to run the game at 4K with high settings over 60FPS. The article references an article about already achieving to run Crysis 3 solely on a CPU. Which I thought was a lovely nod to the work LMG does.

 

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We’ve seen the original Crysis running entirely on a CPU (with no graphics card needed at all), and here’s another interesting feat along similar (kind of) lines: Crysis 3 running directly from a GPU, having been installed in the card’s memory.

Yes, this is another strange one – and like the aforementioned CPU shenanigans, more of an interesting trick than anything actually useful – but an enterprising software engineer installed Crysis on a GeForce RTX 3090.

 

My thoughts

This is an awesome example of just how beastly hardware is becoming. Where just a few years ago, even the highest end GPU's could barely run this game, now they're able to run this game with the entire file system loaded to them. I can't wait to see all the new and crazy things this will lead to.

 

Sources

https://www.techradar.com/news/nvidia-rtx-3090-is-such-a-monster-it-can-have-crysis-3-installed-in-vram-and-run-it-smoothly-at-4k

 

[PianoPlayer88Key]

Well since it's apparently possible to install / run software in VRAM / use it as (temporary) storage...

 

I'd like to see someone's CrystalDiskMark, ATTO, other disk benchmark utilities results, run in:

 

• RTX 3090 / RTX A6000 / RTX A40 VRAM
• Threadripper 3990X / Epyc 7742 CPU cache (would the L1 cache from the 64 cores be pooled together in some form of RAID 0 equivalent?)

 

[Eigenvektor]

 

1 minute ago, PianoPlayer88Key said:

I'd like to see someone's CrystalDiskMark, ATTO, other disk benchmark utilities results

There are some for a 2080S here: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1254110-run-games-on-vram/

 

It's not all that impressive, a NVMe SSD is faster.

[steelo]

It's kind of a cool idea to use the unused vram as virtual memory or a virtual drive but I'm sure the latency would be terrible.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

14 minutes ago, steelo said:

It's kind of a cool idea to use the unused vram as virtual memory or a virtual drive but I'm sure the latency would be terrible.

maybe not, with it being vram, its really fast.

[Intergalacticbits]

I'm surprised that things haven't already evolved to the point were massive amounts of system memory with storage is just cut right into a big cpu and a person would just install games directly to the cpu.

 

I don't know anything about it but I had an old iPad mini a while back.

I took it apart before I got rid of it just to see what was in it.

I flipped out when I saw how little there really was to it. 

It was just the most tiny chips on a board about the size of an extra large stick of gum.

I stored video, music, books, just GBs of stuff on that thing and it looked like it had almost no hardware compared to what I see in my desktop.

 

Of course I really didn't game on it to speak of in a first person shooter way like I do my desktop but still...

[LogicalDrm]

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