 Cohomology growth for nef twists

Let $N$ be a nef Cartier divisor and let the coherent sheaf $\mathcal{F}$ have support dimension $d$. Then $h^i(X,\mathcal{F}(mN))=O(m^{d-i})$ for $1\le i\le d$. This does not require reducedness or smoothness.

Choose a very ample $A$ and fix $a$ sufficiently large for Fujita vanishing. Choose a section of $aA$ avoiding the associated points of $\mathcal{F}$. Its multiplication gives $0\to \mathcal{F}\to \mathcal{F}(aA)\to \mathcal{Q}\to 0$, where $\mathcal{Q}$ has support dimension at most $d-1$. After tensoring with ${\mathcal{O}}_X(mN)$, the middle term has zero higher sheaf cohomology, uniformly in $m$. Hence $h^i(\mathcal{F}(mN))\le h^{i-1}(\mathcal{Q}(mN))$. Induct on support dimension: for $i=1$ use the polynomial bound for sections of a fixed divisor, and for $i>1$ use the induction hypothesis. Degree greater than $d$ vanishes by Grothendieck vanishing.