video card ram & ram disk

[kb5zue]

A question.  With 32 gigs of ram in a pc machine, is it possible to dedicate some of that ram (via ramdisk) to the video card?  Video card is an Nvidia GTX 660 with 2 gigs of ram.  I know that I am not utilizing my ram to its fullest so it would be great if I could dedicate/use some of that 32 gigs (say 6 or 8 gigs) to the video card.  I know it is a hair-brained idea but thought I would give it a shot.

[3 Lions]

You can't add VRAM. 

[-rascal-]

19 minutes ago, kb5zue said:

A question.  With 32 gigs of ram in a pc machine, is it possible to dedicate some of that ram (via ramdisk) to the video card?  Video card is an Nvidia GTX 660 with 2 gigs of ram.  I know that I am not utilizing my ram to its fullest so it would be great if I could dedicate/use some of that 32 gigs (say 6 or 8 gigs) to the video card.  I know it is a hair-brained idea but thought I would give it a shot.

 

Unfortunately not.

Even DRAM would be slower then GDDR memory.

 

RAMDisk allocates system DRAM to work as ...something like... a data storage disk, not VRAM.

[Electronics Wizardy]

It already does this in the driver. THe problem is that the system ram over pcie is much slower than the vram on the gpu.

[kb5zue]

Yea, I didn't think it was possible but I figured what the heck, got nothing to lose by asking.  Many thanks for the help.  It was a neat idea after all when you think about it.  Thanks to all that replied.