I can't help but wish the O3AS app used just a little bit less VRAM.
At present it uses a little more than 2GB. This means that effectively any graphics card with 2N GB of VRAM is limited to N-1 apps running concurrently. In my particular case, with many GPUs each with 8GB, that leaves quite a bit of performance left if only I could run 4 apps at a time on each, as it seems from the community that running as many apps as possible is best.
I know that previously 4GB was needed, then the app workload was split in half so that 2GB per section was needed. If we could split it into thirds for example, then this would be possible I would think.
Then cards with only 2GB could join the search for the first time, 4GB cards could run 2X, 8GB could run 4X, etc.
What do you think?
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