Valve engineer Natalie Vock has introduced a Linux kernel-level optimization that improves game performance on GPUs with 8GB or less VRAM by preventing unnecessary memory eviction. The DMEM Group ...

VRAM has been a hot topic in the PC community for the last 5–6 years. I remember when YouTubers were casting doubts on the RTX 3070's longevity due to its 8GB VRAM. At the time, the majority of gamers ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's Neural Texture Compression (NTC) combined with Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing 1.2 significantly reduces VRAM usage by up to 90%, improving game performance and lowering hardware costs.

VRAM — video memory — is what your graphics card uses to store textures, lighting data, shadows, reflections, and all the other visual assets that make your PC games look the way they should. That ...

Earlier in April 2026, Valve engineer Natalie Vlock introduced a new VRAM optimization for Linux. Rather than letting lower-priority workloads push game data into slower system memory, the ...

Video Random-Access Memory (VRAM), is a vital component of your graphics card (GPU), designed to hold graphical data. Rather than transferring the information from elsewhere, the GPU can grab directly ...