# More GPU memory better, or less GPU memory better?

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**Created:** [December 6, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-gpu-memory-better-or-less-gpu-memory-better/645215 "2020-12-06T05:21:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/more-gpu-memory-better-or-less-gpu-memory-better/645215/1 "2020-12-06T05:21:20Z")

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I’ve run into a strange issue that I can’t make a whole lot of sense of. In a simple animation, when the GPU is turned off, GPU memory usage is 10.5 MB:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/2X/4/420561548629831a02895ef128642bb3dc9f407b.png)

When I force a move to the GPU by having:

```
  transform: translateZ(0);
  will-change: transform;

```

The amount of GPU memory used has down to 3.8 MB:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/2X/f/f9a0728fb08b65c86e3fead8bb44742cfef0fc97.png)

Does that logically make sense to all of you? I would have assumed the GPU memorage usage to be higher when I forced it.

🧐