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echoangleyesterday at 3:40 PM6 repliesview on HN

Do you really need the framebuffer in RAM? Wouldn't that be entirely in the GPU RAM?


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jerrythegerbilyesterday at 3:51 PM

To put it in GPU RAM, you need GPU drivers.

For example, NVIDIA GPU drivers are typically around 800M-1.5G.

That math actually goes wildly in the opposite direction for an optimization argument.

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maccardyesterday at 5:28 PM

You’re assuming a discrete GPU with separate VRAM, and only supporting hardware accelerated rendering. If you have that you almost certainly have more than 2MB of ram

sigwinchyesterday at 3:50 PM

VGA standard supports up to 256k

znpyyesterday at 3:47 PM

Aren’t you cheating by having additional ram dedicated for gpu use exclusively? :)

ErroneousBoshyesterday at 5:29 PM

Computers didn't used to have GPUs back then when 150kB was a significant amount of graphics memory.

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