does graphics card wear out?

[Paresh]

 

Do graphics cards slow down over time? I think some of my past questions have been the graphics card or maybe my SSD slowing down. I blended about 10 images into a photo stack and it worked fine. I tried another one and it wouldn't respond at all and that makes me think the graphics card gets worn out for some reason. I have 16 GB ram, is that enough? Thanks

[nickbatz]

You're probably running out of memory and the machine is resorting to virtual memory - that is, disk-swapping and using the drive as memory. But that's just a guess.

Graphics cards are more likely to fail than to slow down. If the pictures are loaded into RAM (and you want that), then the SSD can't have anything to do with it even if it could slow down. But they're also going to fail before they slow down much, unlike spinning drives.

 

[HarperyTaylor]

i don't think your graphic card wear out as most of the graphic cards average lifespam is 4 5 years before any update . maybe its the case of memory as @nickbatz says 

[Komatös]

On 9/7/2024 at 6:44 PM, Paresh said:

Do graphics cards slow down over time?

Hello and welcome the forum.

Electronic components generally wear out over the years, but in the case of a graphics card, the graphics processor is more likely to give up than a degradation of the memory. A slowdown in work processes always occurs when data has to be transferred to a slower storage medium.
As already recommended, more RAM can be the solution here. If you frequently work with large stacks, I would recommend upgrading to 64 GB.

[nickbatz]

On 9/7/2024 at 1:15 PM, nickbatz said:

If the pictures are loaded into RAM (and you want that), then the SSD can't have anything to do with it even if it could slow down. 

 

Actually, I could be somewhat wrong. The pictures are loaded into RAM and Affinity programs shouldn't slow down much even with ten images, but I'm going to guess that a lot of things are stored along the way, such as undo files and versions along the way.