Dedicated Video Memory

[JurKo]

Hello I built a pc a couple of months ago. I was wondering if I would limit the shared system memory would it effect my performance by much because I actually don't have that much RAM and maybe it would help my performance????

 

[RollinLower]

soo... what's the question?

[ddennis002]

2 minutes ago, JurKo said:

 What is your question, concern? 

What graphics card are you using?

[RogueShadow]

I think I understand the question.

 

You're asking if you should dedicate less memory to your graphics card. That screenshot is from NVIDIA Control Panel if I'm not mistaken, as I recognize the listing format. 

 

The Dedicated Video Memory is how much memory your graphics card has. In your case, you have 4GB memory for your GPU. That is not the same as your system memory; they serve completely different cases for your PC and you won't be able to "share" memory between your system and video card. 

 

Hope that was the question; let me know if I've been mistaken. 

[JurKo]

1 minute ago, RogueShadow said:

I think I understand the question.

 

You're asking if you should dedicate less memory to your graphics card. That screenshot is from NVIDIA Control Panel if I'm not mistaken, as I recognize the listing format. 

 

The Dedicated Video Memory is how much memory your graphics card has. In your case, you have 4GB memory for your GPU. That is not the same as your system memory; they serve completely different cases for your PC and you won't be able to "share" memory between your system and video card. 

 

Hope that was the question; let me know if I've been mistaken. 

Thanks for the reply, but I am wondering why does it say shared sistem memory? Does it use my RAM when the dedicated graphics memory usage goes above of 4GB of RAM?