[FEAT] Detect GDDR VRAM type for dedicated GPUs. about fastfetch HOT 3 OPEN

Doesn't seem to be possible because no public APIs of Nvidia / AMD / Intel drivers report this info AFAIK.

Do you know any open-source program can report it?

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Nope, I think only GPU-Z detects it, but no idea how, maybe they don't and they do a database lookup instead.

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There is no API for this, so you need a database that can infer the VRAM type from the GPU model name. Luckily, pretty much all GPUs of a same model use a single VRAM type (e.g. all GTX 1080s use GDDR5X).

A few GPUs have different VRAM types depending on VRAM size (such as the Radeon HD 7750 or GeForce GT 1030), but this practice hasn't been seen in GPUs released since 2016 or so. In this case, I'd return the most commonly found VRAM type (GDDR5 and DDR3 respectively). If you really want to, you could get fancy by picking the correct VRAM type depending on VRAM size:

• HD 7750 1 GB: GDDR5
• HD 7750 2 GB: DDR3
• GT 1030 1 GB: GDDR5
• GT 1030 2 GB: DDR3

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