Comments on: How to increase dedicated Video RAM in Windows 11

By: Smosexe

Smosexe — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 12:30:00 +0000

I need more then 512 Mb, i need at least 1Gb. How do i do this?

By: Pavithra

Pavithra — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 04:18:00 +0000

In reply to Damian. Damian, since RAM is not same as VRAM the latter becomes a deciding factor in some cases. On the other hand GPU's with higher VRAM are expensive and increasing the dedicated VRAM is an affordable workaround. As you said dedicating more video RAM depends on ones preferences and the trade off is decreased RAM for other non graphic intensive task.

By: Damian

Damian — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 05:37:00 +0000

Prove me wrong, but isn’t dedicating system RAM to the graphics card kind of useless. I mean if you have a dedicated GPU with hopefully GDDR5 VRAM then that should be good enough. Even if your VRAM does run out it automatically starts using the system memory. The only place I would see this being somewhat useful is with GPUs that don’t have their own VRAM like (I think) the integrated graphics shown here. And it could actually make things worse by making part of the system memory unusable by the actual system. For example if you had 8GB of RAM and dedicate 2GB of that you would lose them for use in non-graphics intensive tasks. But of course it’s your computer and your RAM to do with as you will. This is just my opinion on the subject.