[Performance] How to reduce gpu memory consumption ？

[EmmaThompson123]

Describe the issue

I have a onnx model whose size is only 204.57MB，but when I create the session, gpu memory consumpation comes 1.16GB, when inferencing, the gpu memory consumpation comes to 2.25GB, this result in high inference cost, so how to reduce gpu memory consumption ？

To reproduce

just simply create onnxruntime session with default options. the gpu memory consumption function:

def get_gpu_memory_usage():
    process = subprocess.Popen(
        ['nvidia-smi', '--query-gpu=memory.used', '--format=csv,noheader,nounits'],
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
        stderr=subprocess.PIPE
    )
    
    stdout, stderr = process.communicate()

    if stderr:
        raise RuntimeError(f"Error fetching GPU memory usage: {stderr.decode()}")

    memory_used_mb = int(stdout.decode('utf-8').strip())
    memory_used_gb = memory_used_mb / 1024
    return round(memory_used_gb, 2)

Urgency

No response

Platform

Linux

OS Version

ubuntu 20.04

ONNX Runtime Installation

Released Package

ONNX Runtime Version or Commit ID

onnxruntime-gpu 1.11.0

ONNX Runtime API

Python

Architecture

X64

Execution Provider

CUDA

Execution Provider Library Version

11.4

Model File

No response

Is this a quantized model?

No

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