onboard vga consumes too much ram

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
N

nicktran111467

Distinguished
Mar 2, 2009
3
0
18,510
mb: ga-h61n-usb3
mem: 8gb
cpu: i3 3225
os: w7 64-bit

cpuid showing that my onboard vga takes up 2gb of ram (???) even though I set it for less than 512mb.

Is this a misleading info of cpuid or intel vga driver bugs? Anybody having similar issue?
 
Solution
skit75
If he is not using his on-board VGA and his system is allocating 2GB for it, he is losing 25% of his system memory overhead. That memory gets physically addressed via MMIO. It very well could just be a reporting issue so maybe try to get a 2nd opinion from another app. Disable it in BIOS if you are not using it.
Sort by date Sort by votes
A

adamsunderwood

Honorable
Jul 18, 2012
25
0
10,540
Windows 7 and 8 will automatically and dynamically allocate part of the system memory for the GPU, regardless of whether it's integrated or discrete and how much memory you have set aside for it in the BIOS. CPUID is probably either seeing that or it's just bugged. CPU-Z shows my Radeon HD 6970 as having 0MB of RAM. Either way, I wouldn't worry about it.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
skit75

skit75

Splendid
Oct 7, 2008
2,684
1
21,460
If he is not using his on-board VGA and his system is allocating 2GB for it, he is losing 25% of his system memory overhead. That memory gets physically addressed via MMIO. It very well could just be a reporting issue so maybe try to get a 2nd opinion from another app. Disable it in BIOS if you are not using it.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom