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English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on August 24, 2026, 22:43:06

Title: New Windows 11 setting could give unified-memory PCs more VRAM
Post by: Redaktion on August 24, 2026, 22:43:06
Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 feature that lets users reserve portions of unified memory for graphics and AI workloads. It could be especially useful on systems such as AMD Strix Halo and Nvidia RTX Spark, where very large shared-memory pools can already be allocated to the integrated GPU.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/New-Windows-11-setting-could-give-unified-memory-PCs-more-VRAM.1376922.0.html
Title: Re: New Windows 11 setting could give unified-memory PCs more VRAM
Post by: drive-by poster on August 24, 2026, 23:59:24
so I am a somewhat frustrated owner of a strix Halo machine and under Windows. I can really only dedicate 64 GB of memory to video RAM or llm workloads. perhaps this new setting will give me a way to get 96 GB or more for those workloads, without me having to switch to Linux or something.
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