Whats the difference between vram and dedicated vram

[octavian]

which one has a bigger impact on fps in games ?

[Honda Civic 2006]

Dedicated VRam seems to be only within the Intel HD Integrated graphic chips, you can read about it here[www.pvladov.com].

VRam - Video Ram, is ram within the graphics chip, it does not impact FPS in any way, you can simply think of it as "the more I have, the more I can make the game graphically demanding"

[octavian]

Originally posted by Mr_Oren:

Dedicated VRam seems to be only within the Intel HD Integrated graphic chips, you can read about it here[www.pvladov.com].

VRam - Video Ram, is ram within the graphics chip, it does not impact FPS in any way, you can simply think of it as "the more I have, the more I can make the game graphically demanding"

now my fov has expanded lol
i always thought i had 64 mb of vram, when gpus these days have 12 gb,
well it turns out it was dedicated vram, and i actually had 2 gb of vram
thats neat

[OLDMAN🎅]

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[MancSoulja]

Shared memory is when the GPU is allowed to access a portion of your system RAM when it has used its own dedicated memory.

Dedicated memory is your GPU's onboard video memory, only your GPU can access this.

[Big Boom Boom]

Technically VRAM does indeed affect FPS but not in the way you think i.e faster VRAM does indeed make a whole lot difference in many cases. One reason why AMD has been pushing HBM1/2 forever, lower wattage drawn, lower latency, potential bigger bandwidth etc.

[appleseedcarrot]

No vram wont affect fps. If its too low, then some textures will be missing. Like when i used to play bo3 on my 2gb vram gpu when the game minimum was 2gb vram, the ram gets full and stops loading textures. Thats why i should have a 3gb vram gpu to have an extra 1gb of texture, scripts, all that goodies space.

Which is why some people were invisible in my screen. Yes technically vram does make a huge difference in gaming. I only stick to csgo and tf2 nowadays so i dont mind

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by aDumbnamedUser:

Which is why some people were invisible in my screen. Yes technically vram does make a huge difference in gaming. I only stick to csgo and tf2 nowadays so i dont mind

Of course VRAM can affect FPS, it stores more than textures. Typically VRAM will only cause frame issue when you don't have enough.

[Alchemist79]

Vram = In the context you're using sounds like you are refering to shared vram. This is where normal system ram, slower than vram, is shared with other sub-systems, cpu, background tasks, with no direct link to the gpu. It is generally bandwidth limited for gpu's which restricts fps for AAA games.

Dedicated Vram = High speed vram, solely for use by the gpu with a dedicated very high speed data transfer interlink.

[appleseedcarrot]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by aDumbnamedUser:

Which is why some people were invisible in my screen. Yes technically vram does make a huge difference in gaming. I only stick to csgo and tf2 nowadays so i dont mind

Of course VRAM can affect FPS, it stores more than textures. Typically VRAM will only cause frame issue when you don't have enough.

it can. Just in my experience it doesnt sorry. Of course if u have like a 512 mb vram on a gpu and u start playing bo3, it's going to start missing textures, possibly and probably affect fps on a game like bo3 that requires 2gb of vram, and in this case maybe even sounds with some thing like a missing 1.5 gb vram space

[SmollBrain 🏹]

VRAM stores vertex data, textures, shaders, and other stuff. It does effect fps, since the gpu needs to access that data, which is partly dependent on the speed of the vram

[appleseedcarrot]

I think in some cases it can actually increase fps. Yes i said increase. The reason why is that since the game cant load anymore textures, models, all those goodies because of the inffisuient amount of space, the system does not have to be overwhelmed by the new incoming textures and scripts and therefore can increase fps sometimes. Thid is why when i played bo3 on high graphics and ran out of vram, i instantly got like 100 fps when i usually get like 50 to 60. Probably only happening rarely though on some cases