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8Gb Gpu showing as 4Gb

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Hi, My pc specification is  ryzen 3 2200g, 8Gb Ram, Gigabyte B450m Gaming X.
Yesterday I bought a new "Gigabyte rx 570 gaming 8g mi" to upgrade this setup. But my pc is detecting the gpu as 4gb and I couldn't install any gpu driver ( I've tried 3 vertions). "Gpu-Z" is showing it as 8Gb but pc is showing is 4Gb. Need help urgent, if its a faulty gpu then I have to return it on time. 

 

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GPU-z shows it as 8gb, I would trust that over windows. 

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6 minutes ago, Zed4444 said:

Yes but i have to install a driver to use it

Yes you do, and make sure you're plugged into it and not your motherboard since you have an APU as well. 

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It clearly says 8192MB in GPU Z.

Just install the AMD drivers and you're done.

https://www.amd.com/en/support

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Found the solution. It turns out this specific version of gigabyte card needs specific version of driver and not just that, while installing the driver an error will show and i have to run a patcher which is in gigabyte website. All this time i was trying to install the updated drivers.
You guys was really helpful by the way. i am really grateful for your support ?

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