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I measured Isaac Lab VRAM on a 12 GB card: every stock task runs at 4096 envs headless. The "16 GB minimum" is for rendering, not training.

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Every week there is a thread here or in r/robotics from someone with a 4060 laptop asking if Isaac Lab is even possible. NVIDIA's docs say 32 GB RAM / 16 GB VRAM minimum. I had an RTX 3060 12 GB (driver 580.173, Ubuntu 22.04, Isaac Lab 2.3.2 + Isaac Sim 5.1.0 in the official container) and a free a…

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  1. 2026-09-14 02:53 · r/reinforcementlearning
    I measured Isaac Lab VRAM on a 12 GB card: every stock task runs at 4096 envs headless. The "16 GB minimum" is for rendering, not training.

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