I have GeForce GTX 960 4GB, but nvidia/cpu-z shows it only using 2GB

[Volkann1234]

The title explains...

Motherboard: M5A97 R2.0

CPU: AMD FX-8300

RAM: 8gb

I'm so confused

https://prnt.sc/qj2vq4

[_I_]

dxdiag is wrong

the 960 is a 2g gpu
windows can allocate another 2g of system ram to it

[Volkann1234]

Originally posted by _I_:

dxdiag is wrong

the 960 is a 2g gpu
windows can allocate another 2g of system ram to it

But one of my friend has this graphic card too but he's getting 4gb but I'm getting 2gb

I have this graphic card: https://www.vatanbilgisayar.com/msi-gtx960-gaming-4g-gddr5-4gb-128bit-nvidia-geforce-dx12-ekarti.html

[-=SOF=-WID99]

you have a GTX 960 2 gig GPU

buy a better vid card .. yes they did sell a GTX 960 4 gig card they were a bit more expensive ..but the performance boost was not that great .. its still a GTX 960

[-=SOF=-WID99]

download and install and run GPUZ this will show you what GPU you have installed
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

[Volkann1234]

Originally posted by -=SOF=-WID99:

download and install and run GPUZ this will show you what GPU you have installed
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

https://prnt.sc/qj317m
it still shows 2gb
why this is not 4gb?

[Behind you❓❗シ]

This particular GTX 960 does in fact only have 2 GB of VRAM.
Code name: GM206 = GTX960 with 2GB VRAM.

[-=SOF=-WID99]

and again there is not much of a difference
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-2gb-vs-4gb-review

its still only a gtx 960 //the best cards of that series were the Strix line of them by asus .. they had the fastest out of the box factory OC mode ..and yep i have one in a box here ..replaced it to install my GTX 1060 6 gig card

and yes it shipped with only 2 gig of Vram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HBryqtNAGQ

[Volkann1234]

I can't upgrade my graphic card rn , Is my graphic card capable of working 4gb?
If it doesn't why would they sell with higher amount of price then...
any suggestions?

[-=SOF=-WID99]

no...... you have a 2 gig GTX 960

the 4 gig models shipped later and no you do not own one .. and if you want a better faster GPU .. yes you need to buy and install a better Video card

A gtx 960 2 gig card sells for as little as 40 bucks on e ebay
https://www.ebay.com/b/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-960-Computer-Graphics-Cards/27386/bn_8952024

if someone sold you an MSI card that was supposed to be a 4 gig card they may have flashed the bios ..GPUZ reports what the card has .. and yes you only have a 2 gig card or you got ripped off by a reseller

again the GTX 960 cards initially were all yes 2 gig cards ..the 4 gig cards came out later and they did not perform much better without a decent Overclock and your luck with that was silicon based .. its still a GTX 960

you probably wanna upgrade that GPU at this point as the GTX 960 came out what ??? 4 to 5 yrs ago ..and your better off with a newer card

[nullable]

Originally posted by Volkann1234:

I can't upgrade my graphic card rn :winter2019sadyul: , Is my graphic card capable of working 4gb?

No.

Originally posted by Volkann1234:

If it doesn't why would they sell with higher amount of price then...

I once had a friend who bought a 768MB GeForce GTX 460 from Best Buy for like $250, I bought a 1GB GeForce GTX 460 from Newegg for like $190. That's how, different stores can price things differently. My friend returned his 460 to Best Buy and bought the better card from Newegg.

But even then, if a store has a wide selection different cards can be priced differently and that pricing isn't solely based on hardware specs, a weaker card is not guaranteed to be cheaper then a slightly better card.

And price has never been the best way to determine hardware performance. That's why.

Originally posted by Volkann1234:

any suggestions?

The 960 4GB isn't a much better card. (https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3468-gtx-960-2gb-vs-960-4gb-2019-benchmark) Stop fussing over RAM amounts like they matter more than they do. Your life isn't going to be better if you could wave a wand and summon another 2GB into existence for your GPU.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The 4gb won't help u do anything more or better. It's a slow crappy gpu regardless of the vram amount. Buy a better one if need more performance. Like a 1660

[Volkann1234]

I know vram amount not solving the problem... I just wanted to be sure is it 2gb or 4gb. Because Dxdiag saying it's 4gb but other applications saying it's 2gb.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Volkann1234:

I know vram amount not solving the problem... I just wanted to be sure is it 2gb or 4gb. Because Dxdiag saying it's 4gb but other applications saying it's 2gb.

Well that's been explained. I have a 1080 ti with 11GB of VRAM. Total memory is listed as 19GB, device RAM is 11GB (which makes sense) shared RAM is 8GB (system RAM). There's no issue there, other programs are only showing you device RAM. DXDiag is just showing more detailed information, there's no mystery there.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

DEDICATED is your actual vram. All other amount such as Total, includes an amount set aside for Virtual, which isn't real.

Always just use GPUZ for this. No other apps.

[Volkann1234]

so that means I have 2gb dedicated ram