I recently read something similar to this article https://devblogs.nvidia.com/gpudirect-storage/ where it says something to the effect of it being possible to use NVME memory as video memory. I'm trying to find the exact article and will post when i do. However, I was curious is this something faceswap could support?
Nvidia recently posted information saying that NVME could be used as
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Re: Nvidia recently posted information saying that NVME could be used as
Not really, no. Storage is much slower than the vtam on board the gpu and relying on it as vram replacement is not viable. Also, the images must be augmented so even streaming the raw images isn't viable. Further, consumer pcs don't have separate pci-e switches that allow the gpu to directly read from nvme storage which is required for any benefit from this tech.
It's a cool tech, but it's really only useful for huge datasets (1m+ images) in a data center environment. We don't struggle to feed the gpus generally and can't really benefit from using it.