[HN Gopher] Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM usi...
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       Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system
       RAM/NVMe
        
       Author : mmastrac
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2026-03-15 15:59 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | tandr wrote:
       | Some simpler benchmark table would be great. May I suggest Ollama
       | on base machine, Ollama with T1, Ollama with T1+T2 etc. on
       | midsize and big models to compare token/sec?
        
       | pabs3 wrote:
       | Would be great to get this into mainline Linux.
        
       | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
       | Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47384557
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       | (Still cool, still would benefit from better benchmarks)
        
       | holoduke wrote:
       | The is extremely slow and not useful in my opinion.
        
         | majorchord wrote:
         | I would say it depends entirely on your usecase. I don't think
         | there can be a simple "not useful" generalization that applies
         | to everyone.
        
           | jauntywundrkind wrote:
           | Man I wish that was a canned response that could be deployed
           | on demand! Well said.
           | 
           | I really appreciate thriftful & resourceful points of view.
           | Exploring what if, looking for use is such a great virtue.
        
         | bigwheels wrote:
         | Can you elaborate beyond the shallow/superficial dismissal?
        
         | daneel_w wrote:
         | It makes the difference between being able to run a lot of
         | machine learning tasks, and not being able at all. Pretty
         | useful.
        
       | bhewes wrote:
       | This has been fun we can task our nemotron-3-super model to run
       | over night when our desktops are idle. 4070s and 96gb of ram
       | works fine. Slow but does it's job.
        
       | daneel_w wrote:
       | Related, a couple of years ago:
       | https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/15t0lsm/i_turned_a_95_...
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       | "I turned a $95 AMD APU into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run
       | stable diffusion!"
        
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