Comment by c0dejedi
14 hours ago
I am catching up on comments
The reason I wrote this is I run this laptop in hybrid (AMD display + NVIDIA as swap). So all at VRAM was going to waste.
On your question re: switchable swap. It's on my to-do list ;)
14 hours ago
I am catching up on comments
The reason I wrote this is I run this laptop in hybrid (AMD display + NVIDIA as swap). So all at VRAM was going to waste.
On your question re: switchable swap. It's on my to-do list ;)
Wouldn't this prevent the nvidia GPU from being power gated since it's never "idle"? So like your battery life regresses?
While it may prevent sleep, one of the frustrations I have on an old skylake desktop with a bunch of 1080ti GPUs is that when set to power saving modes, the GPUs sit at 1x2.0 pcie lanes and low wattage. That slows down loading quite a bit.
So it will use more power, but nothing close to when the GPU is being used.