Can VRAM spill into RAM?

[PerformanceIssue]

I am currently using a 3060 TI and 5600x build, with 16 GB DDR4 3600MHz RAM from g skill.

When I play games such as cod warzone, I notice the pc can handle good graphics with high frames fairly well, with the only factor dragging me down being ram.

From the task manager, my ram is typically at 80-95% usage, and at least from warzone it tells me I am using about 75% of my on board VRAM.

I do, however, have plenty of chrome tabs open along side discord.

 

I'm wondering a few things. Firstly, when the task manager reads 85% ram usage, is that including my 16 gb of ddr4 ram as well as 8 gb of ddr6?

Also, if I were to upgrade to 32 gb or ddr4 ram, could my 3060 ti feed off of ddr4 ram if it were on full utilization of its onboard ddr6 vram?

 

Thanks for the help.

[The_russian]

12 minutes ago, PerformanceIssue said:

I do, however, have plenty of chrome tabs open

Yeah, that'll give you high memory usage. As far as I can tell you aren't hitting 100% utilization, so you won't get better performance from getting more memory. 

 

12 minutes ago, PerformanceIssue said:

Firstly, when the task manager reads 85% ram usage, is that including my 16 gb of ddr4 ram as well as 8 gb of ddr6?

DDR (the 16GB of ram sticks) and GDDR (the 8GB on the graphics card) memory are not the same thing, the memory section in task manager would only be for the 16GB DDR4.

 

12 minutes ago, PerformanceIssue said:

Also, if I were to upgrade to 32 gb or ddr4 ram, could my 3060 ti feed off of ddr4 ram if it were on full utilization of its onboard ddr6 vram?

As far as I know, no. 

[Jurrunio]

Unless you're willing to carve your way out yourself (which means full-on programming the OS and driver), no. The opposite can occur (graphics card taking system RAM for storage), that's supported by the video driver, but not the other way round.