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Will installing a dedicate GPU in Windows 10 for my display only free up VRAM from a second GPU?

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2022 12:29 am
by martinf

Running the SYM384 model and I am running out of VRAM at batch size of 4 with a 3080Ti.

I am wondering if adding a second GPU only to be used to drive my display might free up some VRAM on the 3080Ti?

Anyone know if this is worth exploring?


Re: Will installing a dedicate GPU in Windows 10 for my display only free up VRAM from a second GPU?

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:25 am
by torzdf

Possibly, but Windows always seems to reserve some VRAM regardless. You shouldn't be running out of RAM though as that model was developed on a 2080Ti (under Linux) with 11GB of VRAM,


Re: Will installing a dedicate GPU in Windows 10 for my display only free up VRAM from a second GPU?

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2022 3:15 pm
by martinf

I can run that model with batch size of 3 without issue. If I go to 4 it will run for a while then any stress at all on VRAM creates an OOM. This is on a Win 10 Pro box with 3080Ti and 80 gigs RAM and very little else running. Again... SYM384 Phaze_A with what I believe are default model settings but a few tweaks in the global loss settings, including training with a mask and penalized mask loss. Not using mixed precision. Maybe I will turn that back on and reduce my snapshot interval...