prsyahmi/GpuRamDrive

Is this program REAL?

alainazpe opened this issue · 9 comments

alainazpe commented

Hello,

When I open the program my GPU is correctly detected, so I click on "Mount" button:

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So the partition appears on "My computer", but it isn't getting the memory from the GPU, it is using the system RAM:

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So, is in this case the program working incorrectly or, this program is only making a RamDisk?

Thanks.

prsyahmi commented

Hi, I never heard that device. It is possible that your VRAM is shared with system RAM. Does your GPU have dedicated RAM?

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alainazpe commented

Is a Sapphire Radeon R9 290 with 4GB of VRAM. Here you have an image of Windows recognising it:
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madox398 commented

I tested too, it's fake. Program using normal RAM, not GPU RAM

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bzn7 commented

Is there any kind of solution for this issue? I can use Intel HD Graphics shared memory as ramdisk but I can't use Radeon 8570M's 2GB dedicated memory. It uses system Ram.

Deleted user commented

Works perfectly fine on Nvidia cards. Now sure why you ppl have issues.

bzn7 commented

Is there anything for me to do to find problem on Radeon's? @prsyahmi

Deleted user commented

For Nvidia this tool uses CUDA which is not supported on AMD cards. Possible OpenCL support is broken and thus its not working and by default the fall back is to use system RAM, which some here did observe.

On Nvidia cards you can see that GpuRAMDrive does allocate memory using GPU-Zm than you use ATTO to check that the performance is as expected.

FR46M3N7-P4R71CL3 commented

The way the task manager displays is it combines shared memory usage and display it there.
Note that it says "Memory" and not RAM.