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Firefox is too self-restricted in GPU memory usage

Firefox Crashing and slow performance
dxin2024 replied
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On iGPU hardware, default dedicated VRAM is usually 0.5GB and the maximum is 2GB.

On my laptop Firefox only use 0.48GB(dedicated VRAM)/0.2GB(shared VRAM) when I set VRAM to auto(512MB) in BIOS.

The screenshot is when I set dedicated VRAM to 2GB in BIOS, and you can see the VRAM usage has increased to 1GB(dedicated)/0.5GB(shared).

It seems Firefox is restrict itself to dedicated VRAM and not fully utilize the vast amount of shared GPU memory. This makes sense on dGPU hardware but not on iGPU hardware. On iGPU hardware, the negligible amount of dedicated GPU memory exists only for compatibility to legacy programs, and Firefox should allocate all it's GPU memory from the shared GPU memory pool.

On iGPU hardware, default dedicated VRAM is usually 0.5GB and the maximum is 2GB. On my laptop Firefox only use 0.48GB(dedicated VRAM)/0.2GB(shared VRAM) when I set VRAM to auto(512MB) in BIOS. The screenshot is when I set dedicated VRAM to 2GB in BIOS, and you can see the VRAM usage has increased to 1GB(dedicated)/0.5GB(shared). It seems Firefox is restrict itself to dedicated VRAM and not fully utilize the vast amount of shared GPU memory. This makes sense on dGPU hardware but not on iGPU hardware. On iGPU hardware, the negligible amount of dedicated GPU memory exists only for compatibility to legacy programs, and Firefox should allocate all it's GPU memory from the shared GPU memory pool.
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dxin2024
dxin2024 Mwenye swali

Add memory usage when dedicated VRAM is set to 512MB. Total (dedicated + shared) VRAM usage is significantly less compared with 2GB dedicated VRAM. Behavior of MS Edge is similar.

For now I think I will use the 2GB settings, because many (most) software consider dedicated VRAM is the only VRAM and are very reluctant to using shared VRAM?

Uliza swali

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