Will increasing my VRAM boost performance?

[Mousto]

I currently have an RTX 3060 12GB GPU ,if I were to put it in my pc replacing a 2GB VRAM GPU act as if I have more ram in general or is VRAM completely different from RAM?

[thrasher_565]

4 minutes ago, Mousto said:

I currently have an RTX 3060 12GB GPU ,if I were to put it in my pc replacing a 2GB VRAM GPU act as if I have more ram in general or is VRAM completely different from RAM?

ya...its more and faster ram then the 2gb gpu....

[Mousto]

1 minute ago, thrasher_565 said:

ya...its more and faster ram then the 2gb gpu....

Does it act as regular RAM as well though ,as in will I be able to have more programs open

[Levent]

Pretty sure a RTX3060 is an upgrade over anything with a 2G vram. Having more vram might not be as beneficial as having more processing power. It is still a noticeable upgrade.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Mousto said:

Does it act as regular RAM as well though ,as in will I be able to have more programs open

Nope vram is for the gpu only.

 

What are the rest of your specs? 

[Levent]

1 minute ago, Mousto said:

Does it act as regular RAM as well though ,as in will I be able to have more programs open

No, VRAM is strictly used for GPU. 

[thrasher_565]

5 minutes ago, Mousto said:

Does it act as regular RAM as well though ,as in will I be able to have more programs open

no the pc ram is different form the gpu vram. there might be some program that could use the gpu ram as desktop ram but that's out of my expertees 

 

back then in windows xp you could stick a usb stick in and get"more desktop ram" but new os dont do that any more i dont think as they ready have alot of ram any way like 64gb+. windows xp had a max of 4gb ram as far as i can tell or at least with out mods.

[Vishera]

4 minutes ago, Mousto said:

Does it act as regular RAM as well though ,as in will I be able to have more programs open

A graphics card is a computer on it's own,

It has it's own BIOS,processing unit and RAM (aka VRAM).

RAM won't affect the boost clock of the GPU.

[Mousto]

1 minute ago, Levent said:

No, VRAM is strictly used for GPU. 

ok so like on running 2 games at the same time it won't make a difference but in photoshop , after effects , premiere pro etc. it will?

[Vishera]

2 minutes ago, Mousto said:

ok so like on running 2 games at the same time it won't make a difference but in photoshop , after effects , premiere pro etc. it will?

It depends on how much RAM and VRAM your system requires to do all that,

Regardless of that 12GB of VRAM is a lot.

But you may run out of RAM in the process.

[Mousto]

1 minute ago, Vishera said:

It depends on how much VRAM your system requires to do all that,

Regardless of that 12GB of VRAM is a lot.

But you may run out of RAM in the process.

I'm having a hard time grasping how it works but all in all will I be able to run graphic design and video editing programs a little smoother until I'm able to purchase more RAM?
I'm haven't looked in to pc building or how they work much but for now all I need is a yes or no answer 

[Prometheus935]

5 minutes ago, Mousto said:

I'm having a hard time grasping how it works but all in all will I be able to run graphic design and video editing programs a little smoother until I'm able to purchase more RAM?
I'm haven't looked in to pc building or how they work much but for now all I need is a yes or no answer 

All in all it should run better. The graphic design side definitely will but the video editing side probably not as much as that is more CPU and RAM bound.

[Vishera]

6 minutes ago, Mousto said:

I'm having a hard time grasping how it works but all in all will I be able to run graphic design and video editing programs a little smoother until I'm able to purchase more RAM?
I'm haven't looked in to pc building or how they work much but for now all I need is a yes or no answer 

For those workloads 32GB of RAM should be enough.