970m VRAM vs Onboard Graphics

Phreaqinn · March 17, 2016

Okay, so I just got a new laptop that has a 6700HQ CPU with 530HD Graphics and a 970m with 6GB of VRAM (I paid for 3GB, but whatever). Considering the display ports are running off the built-in graphics, is there any benefit of having the 6GB of VRAM since if I was to run multiple displays, lets say 4k, that they wouldn't be using the GPU but the onboard?

Enderman · March 17, 2016

no benefit

Moonzy · March 17, 2016

6 minutes ago, Phreaqinn said:

Considering the display ports are running off the built-in graphics

what kind of laptop would do this?

so u cant game well on external display or what?

exercutor5 · March 17, 2016

25 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

what kind of laptop would do this?

so u cant game well on external display or what?

There are many laptops out there with the display out ports hardwired to the iGPU, just to save power or something, but once you go fullscreen in a game while on an external monitor, the dGPU would be powering it, but still not as good as hardwiring the display outputs to the dGPU directly.