How to set shared graphics memory

Rishabh 28

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I just want to know that how should I set my shared system memory. I have asus nvidia geforce en210 silent gpu. but on the box of GPU it was written 1GB but it is showing 512MB as dedicated memory.So, I want to increase my shared system memory.
 
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There is a 512MB version:
http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/EN210_SILENTDI512MD2LP/

I'm not really sure how we can help. Check your receipt or online purchase statement to find the model you actually ordered.

If you are trying to play a game and your experience sucks that's probably more about the weak GPU then the lack of Video memory. Having 512MB is more than enough for non-gaming tasks like home theater and basic usage.

If you want light gaming I suggest a better card.

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As said you have no control over the amount of video memory allocated with an addon card. The ONLY time that is possible is with an APU or iGPU (i.e. Intel CPU) that uses some of your System Memory as video memory.

chenw

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Most of the shared memory on GPU's are fixed, there are no way to change them via user intervention.

Not that it would matter anyway since VRAM is meaningless here with that low-end of a 'GPU' (the term is loose here, I think that as a Graphics output rather than GPU).
 

Rishabh 28

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I want to tell you that I am not the only one who has this problem. Whoever buys this model of graphics card normally doesn't know much about GPUs, so they don't come to know that they have only 512 MB memory instead of 1GB. But I know much about graphics, so I am concerned about this problem
I do not know if it match with the box because I had thrown the box in the bin after installing my graphic card
 

chenw

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It won't matter in your case, that GPU is very weak, increasing shared VRAM (if you could) will have very little impact on its performance.

EDIT: AFAIK GPU's tend to advertise the amount of RAM the card would have access to, not what it has. For most part it is the amount of dedicated memory, since shared memory is a lot slower than dedicated, but lower end tend to include Shared as well.
 
There is a 512MB version:
http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/EN210_SILENTDI512MD2LP/

I'm not really sure how we can help. Check your receipt or online purchase statement to find the model you actually ordered.

If you are trying to play a game and your experience sucks that's probably more about the weak GPU then the lack of Video memory. Having 512MB is more than enough for non-gaming tasks like home theater and basic usage.

If you want light gaming I suggest a better card.

Other:
As said you have no control over the amount of video memory allocated with an addon card. The ONLY time that is possible is with an APU or iGPU (i.e. Intel CPU) that uses some of your System Memory as video memory.
 
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