Gtx 1070 showing only 4gb of vram

[Alexaldin]

I'm pretty new to this kind of stuff, so I don't know if there is something I have no clue about. Why ASUS GPU TweakII show me only 4365 Mb of Vram instead of 8 Gb?

[MrDrWho13]

Looks like it goes up to 8GB but you've only used 4GB so far (the bit on the left shows 8GB). I might be wrong though.

[typographie]

I think that's showing you the peak amount of VRAM that has been used while the software has been running. The total amount of memory is on the y-axis, shown as 8191 MB.

[Alexaldin]

Oh. I... my bad, didn't noticed it  I'm pretty dumb, maybe I'm a bit too tired today >.> Thank you guys

[App4that]

You have to raise the limit in the settings to see all 8g.

 

[NumLock21]

Just now, typographie said:

I think that's showing you the peak amount of VRAM that has been used while the software has been running. The total amount of memory is on the y-axis, shown as 8191 MB.

The Y axis shows 8GB but the max is only 4GB and he's only using 1GB.

[Briggsy]

download moar VRam!1!

[App4that]

4g gate

[MrDrWho13]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

The Y axis shows 8GB but the max is only 4GB and he's only using 1GB.

I think it's max usage so far not max that can be used. They're not going to pull a Oneplus on us.

[typographie]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

The Y axis shows 8GB but the max is only 4GB and he's only using 1GB.

"Max" is the peak amount of memory in use while the software has been up. In this case, apparently 4365 MB was the largest amount of VRAM use that the software recorded. Current usage is 1106 MB. The program sees the 8 GB total, but whatever the OP ran during that time only needed 4365 MB.

 

That's my interpretation anyway. It looks identical to MSI Afterburner's graphs.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, MrDrWho13 said:

I think it's max usage so far not max that can be used. They're not going to pull a Oneplus on us.

You mean they advertise their phone at 4GB but only comes with 3.5GB?!

:0

 

 

Just now, typographie said:

"Max" is the peak amount of memory in use while the software has been up. In this case, apparently 4365 MB was the largest amount of VRAM use that the software recorded. Current usage is 1106 MB. The program sees the 8 GB total, but whatever the OP ran during that time only needed 4365 MB.

 

That's my interpretation anyway. It looks identical to MSI Afterburner's graphs.

Someone has to download the program themselves to test it out. No point for me to run it when my gpu only has 1GB of vram.

[MrDrWho13]

17 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

You mean they advertise their phone at 4GB but only comes with 3.5GB?!

:0

I was more talking about having lots of RAM but not even using half. Yours works too but that was the GTX 970  

[typographie]

1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

Someone has to download the program themselves to test it out. No point for me to run it when my gpu only has 1GB of vram.

Alright, you asked for it.

 

The following image dump was done using a GTX 770 4 GB. The rest of my system specs are in my profile. I closed and re-opened the app to reset the data after each test.

 

1. A baseline, just sitting at the Windows desktop. Max is 181 MB.
   
    
2. Guild Wars 2. Extremely low VRAM usage. I loaded into one of the more complicated expansion maps, Tangled Depths, and ran around until it looked like it was as high as it was going to get. Maxed at 931 MB, but usually more like 600-800 MB.
   
    
3. The Witcher 3. Moderate VRAM usage. I loaded into Beauclair and looked around a bit, but it was clearly capping hard around 1900 MB and didn't want to budge. This is a game that knows what it wants.
   
    
4. Rise of the Tomb Raider, irrationally high VRAM usage with Very High textures enabled (which cases noticeable stuttering and terrain pop-in on my system). I ran the in-game benchmark and then quit the game right after. I think it would've landed somewhere in the 6 GB range if I'd had that much.
   

So the moral of the story is that the OP sees "Max: 4365" because that's the peak amount that was needed while running whatever application they ran. They just need a more demanding game to see > 4 GB in use.