What is your basic Vram usage per OS?

[Shehriazad]

After switching to Windows 10 I looked at the basic Vram usage with an empty "idling" system and was pleasantly surprised.

Even though I have the Windows 10 style activated, it only takes 139/140mb of Vram.


Now I would be interested how it's looking like on other idle systems. Windows 8/.1, 7. (Please do tell what kind of windows style you have enabled if you decide to help out)

Some Linux stuff and so on.


Programs like GPU-Z will show it to you. I know that this is a rather odd metric, but I kind of hope y'all can help me out as it would really help me in the future when building some more low cost rigs with limited Vram situations etc. (Posting it in here since I am mainly looking for Nvidia card based results here, but feel free to contribute if your hardware is not Nvidia)

 

[BSim500]

Even though I have the Windows 10 style activated, it only takes 139/140mb of Vram.

Now I would be interested how it's looking like on other idle systems. Windows 8/.1, 7. (Please do tell what kind of windows style you have enabled if you decide to help out)

GPU-Z VRAM usage : Windows 7 @ 1080p. 173MB (Aero on) drops to 125MB (Aero off). Idle with 1x Explorer window open. I don't have Win 8/8.1/10 or Linux. As for "low cost rigs with limited Vram situations" honestly I thought even the lowly GTX 750 comes with 2GB VRAM, so I can't see +50MB from the OS theme making a noticeable difference?

 

[Shehriazad]

GPU-Z VRAM usage : Windows 7 @ 1080p. 173MB (Aero on) drops to 125MB (Aero off). Idle with 1x Explorer window open. I don't have Win 8/8.1/10 or Linux. As for "low cost rigs with limited Vram situations" honestly I thought even the lowly GTX 750 comes with 2GB VRAM, so I can't see +50MB from the OS theme making a noticeable difference?

Yea, it would be in that situation. But we are talking VERY low cost...like PCs that'll be below $250 in hardware cost. A GTX750 is not an option in that situation. All you got is looow end APUs, far below X50 Nvidia and some really low end HD graphics CPUs.

We are talking machines that are going to be used at some schools... I already feel bad for those students, but we're talking like primary school level here. So I guess they won't need it for anything exciting. (I still think they should just go with CPU sticks or Raspberry Pi's and the like...but they want a "classic" Desktop...and it best not cost anything)

 

[Piroko]

Windows 8.1, Radeon drivers, about 50 hours since the last restart:
159 MB at 1440p, 138 MB at 1080p.
After fresh restart:
158 MB at 1440p, 138 MB at 1080p.
A bit surprised actually about that consistency.