Gamers and graphics designers usually need a lot of VRAM or Video RAM, and some programs and games require a minimum or recommended VRAM. Here's how you can find how much VRAM is on your video card.
You can easily find your VRAM in DirectX or Settings.
Video tutorial:
How to Check Your Available VRAM in Windows 10 & 11 - DirectX Diagnostic Tool
Dxdiag is a quicker way to get your available VRAM.
Press the Windows Key + R, type in dxdiag, and press Enter.
Click on the Display or Display 1 tab.
Display Memory (VRAM) shows your currently available VRAM.
How to Check Your Available VRAM in Windows 10 & 11 - Settings
Click on Start > Settings or press the Windows Key + I.
Click on Display on the right.
Click on Advanced Display on the right.
Click on Display adapter properties.
Your available VRAM is displayed next to Dedicated Video Memory.
How to Upgrade Your Available VRAM in Windows 10 & 11
If you don't have enough VRAM, there are some options. You can always upgrade to a better video card on a Desktop PC. Modern video cards come with 12 or more GB of VRAM. If you have an onboard video card (laptops, all-in-one PCs, and often Intel video cards), your only option is to go into your BIOS and share more of your memory (RAM) with your video card. If you don't have a lot of computer memory, upgrades are often affordable, certainly cheaper than the latest video cards.
Refer to your computer motherboard manual, but generally, you're looking for Advanced Features or Advanced Chipset Features. In that section, you're looking for Graphic Settings or Video Settings.
, and press Enter.Click on the Display or Display 1 tab.Display Memory
Display Memory
Video random-access memory (VRAM) is dedicated computer memory used to store the pixels and other graphics data as a framebuffer to be rendered on a computer monitor. It often uses a different technology than other computer memory, in order to be read quickly for display on a screen.
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Press Windows key + R to open the Run prompt.Type dxdiag and press Enter.Head over to the Display tab, and you'll see your GPU's name, the amount of VRAM, and other basic information.
If you find the amount of VRAM used in Windows 11 is insufficient, try adjusting it in your BIOS. Here's how to do it. Restart your computer and repeatedly press your BIOS access button (F2, Del, etc.) while your PC boots up.
To check your graphics card performance on Windows 10 and Windows 11, launch the Task Manager app from the Start menu.Under the “Performance” tab, select the GPU option to view a detailed summary of your graphics card performance metrics such as current memory usage and GPU temperature.
Integrated Intel GPUs have no dedicated VRAM. That 128MB is regular RAM pre-allocated to the GPU at boot time and used for backwards compatibility with older applications. This is why you see around 15.8GB of RAM instead of the full 16GB available.
Open Task Manager by right-clicking the taskbar and selecting "Task Manager" or pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc.Click the "Performance" tab and click "GPU 0." Your graphic card's memory is listed below the graphs in usage/capacity format. If you have more than one GPU installed, there will be more than one GPU listed.
Most models have 12GB. The memory configuration of the RTX 3060 is surprising at first glance. It has 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM, which is even more than the significantly faster GeForce RTX 3080, which originally only had 10GB of GDDR6X.
You can view your computer's virtual memory usage by opening the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc), selecting Performance tab > Memory, or using third-party tools such as Process Explorer for Windows or Activity Monitor on macOS.
RAM: 4 GB. If your PC has less than 4GB of memory, there are sometimes options for upgrading to get additional RAM. You may want to consult your PC manufacturer's website or with a retailer to see if there are easy and affordable options to meet the minimum requirements for Windows 11.
This is the number of megabytes you want to allocate as Video RAM. If you have 8 gigabytes of RAM, you can allocate as much as 512 megabytes. If you have more RAM, you can allocate more.
If you check RAM with the System Information utility, you'll see details about the physical and virtual memory. Select the search bar on the taskbar, type System Information, and then click or tap that result. Select System Summary from the left pane.
Whether you're still on Windows 10 or have since upgraded to Windows 11, checking your RAM is easy. Open Settings > System > About and move to the Device Specifications section. You should see a line named "Installed RAM" that will be able to tell you how much you currently have.
To check available RAM slots using Task Manager, right-click the Start button, open Task Manager, navigate to the Performance tab, select Memory, and under “Slots used,” observe the number of occupied slots.
In simplest terms, VRAM is a type of RAM. RAM refers to the computer's general memory. Another type of RAM called synchronous DRAM is what computers rely on to run programs, load an operating system and execute tasks. VRAM is the portion of RAM that is specifically dedicated to processing graphics-related tasks.
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