Shared video memory

[Mateuet]

Is it possible to share video memory from the computer to the videocard? I've read that it is possible if you have a built-in videocard, the problem is that you wil loose loading speed. Is it also possible with my GTX470?? Cause i'll be running out of memory shortly and I dont want to buy a Tesla ( no money! )hahah

[kubo]

nope, it's not possible, search the forum, I can't quite give you the technical anwser, but it has been asked several times before.

[Mateuet]

THX alot i'll look into it.

[ROUBAL]

For what I have understood so far, project data have to be stored close to the cuda processing cores to get fast treatment. Using the memory on the motherboard requires a permanent data exchange through slow bus, allowing ridiculous rendering speed...

[slatr]

Gainward is releasing a 2gb 460 card

http://www.gainward.com/main/edm/GTX460 ... 0_2GB.html

[kubo]

I hope that more and more gpu brands start to see a real market in gpu rendering and hopefully we will get more capable "cheap" gpu's with lots of ram, now there is not only gamers out there

[n1k]

Yes, but the fact is that there are just few of us, relatively speaking, who need a lot of video RAM. When our numbers grow, prices of ray tracing friendly video cards( those with 4 and 6 GB of ram) should drop considerately.

Cheers,
n1k