Hexatope

What the.. care to share your specs and driver versions? I don't think I would get even close to that if I tried even with one of my Nvidia cards unless I was in a fully loaded club with my max avatars slider all the way up.

Okay so I've installed Manjaro xfce 20.0.3 on the 3570K / 980 Ti. Got the Nvidia 440.82.1 drivers installed and an alt in the same area as my AMD rig.. curiously enough, it is using slightly higher ram on the firestorm process but not twice as much, 1.7GB for the AMD GPU and 2.3GB for the Nvidia. Manjaro 20.0.3 / Nvidia 440.82 Zorin 15.2 (Ubuntu 18.04) / Vega 64 (Off topic.. despite the ram issue I still think I prefer ZorinOS over Manjaro because I'm not as familiar with Arch. Seems like Zorin boots faster too.) If you guys would like to keep this going, would anyone like to suggest a place we can use as a benchmark, with a preset graphics setting? (I should also point out I haven't changed the graphics settings much, 128m draw distance, everything else is on high / adv lighting on, shadows off.) I might give a newer distro of Ubuntu a try too, 18.04 is two years old now and 20.04 is available.

I've been hearing a lot of people are using Arch lately, I'll download manjaro tonight when I get home from work and see if the ram issue persists with a different distro. Thanks for the input! Also, love the raspberry pi. I have a 4b 4gb model 😄 This isn't exactly what I'm experiencing. It's more like the data is being double cached because it's exactly double of what my other PC is using, that post's issue sounds like some kind of memory leak. When I teleport to a more simple area the ram consumption does drop, usually to a minimum of 2GB. I will head over to sl17b later and get some metrics and screenshots. I should also clarify, the performance between the two machines are almost identical and it runs stable with no crashes. I'm using the latest current release on both machines with default nvidia settings.

Hello all! Some backstory; I've tinkered around with ubuntu builds of linux here and there, tried running SL (Firestorm viewer) on it a few times over the years but never decided to seriously start using it as a primary OS until about a few weeks ago. I have a few other systems so I've been using ZorinOS 15.2 (based on Ubuntu 18.04) and I've been enjoying it quite a lot. I have two desktop rigs, one's all AMD (R5 3600 / 16GB DDR4-3200 / Vega 64, using RADV/Kisak-Mesa 20.1.1) and the other is Intel/Nvidia (3570K, 16GB DDR3-1333, GTX 980 Ti, on Nvidia 440.82 Open Source drivers). I was using the AMD rig for Windows and the Intel one for linux and noticed that Intel was using approximately twice the amount of RAM (as reported by the System Monitor application under memory) when logged into another account in the same area. I initially thought this was an issue with linux, but after trying Zorin on the AMD machine it doesn't have this issue, using up half the memory as the intel/nvidia. Earlier today I set up a 3rd desktop to test performance for a friend looking for some upgrades for his wife's computer, (Fx8350, 8GB DDR3, GTX 960) and noticed that it was also using twice the amount of RAM as my main AMD system. Curiously, I dug out an old Radeon HD 6950 just to see if it would still have this problem on that card. In the area I was in, consumption on the FX rig went from around 3GB of ram down to around 900MB or so. (Performance also suffered but that's to be expected with Terascale cards and OpenGL, not to mention the open source Caiman drivers.) Can anyone advise me on if there's a setting I should change, maybe on the nvidia settings, or could someone test on their machine with other generations of Nvidia GPUs to see if they experience the same? I currently only have the two Maxwell cards, 960 2GB and 980 Ti 6GB, and I'm curious to see if Pascal or Turing have the same problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I tried searching around but haven't seen anyone post about this. Thanks in advance!