You could use its VRAM as a higher priority swap. Extra memory effectively.
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Uh, I didn't know we could do strange things like that. 🙃 Here's a link to the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM
Something I haven't considered, thank you!
I think that GPU should be supported by CUDA 9.0 and it has some Vulkan 1.2? You'd need to install an old version (<=9.0) of the CUDA framework and find some software which is fine with that. But I had the same GPU in my old Thinkpad and it's just not very fast. I sometimes used it for some Portal2 or a few extra FPS on SuperTuxKart. But other than that it wasn't a gamechanger even compared to the iGPU. If it's too complicated, just do the calculations on the CPU, I don't think there will be a big difference. You could do video encoding on it (for old codecs), but the iGPU can do that as well...
A low-end/budget GPU from almost 10 years ago won't be helpful for much these days, no.