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    Phoronix: Mesa 20.3 Will Let You Fake Having Less Video Memory To Help In Debugging

    Wired up in Mesa 20.3-devel is a new DriConf option override_vram_size for overriding a smaller amount of video memory to report to the program/game being run. This is intended for development/debug purposes...

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    Michael
    This could make for some interesting benchmarking. For example, you could show how much the extra bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 would help over PCIe 3.0 by setting a VRAM to 8MB on a dGPU.

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