Increase the Dedicated Memory of a AMD Radeon HD 7560D?

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So i bought a prebuilt PC to be able to play games, it had 4GB of RAM and the graphics card and accordingly it used 512MB of dedicated memory, but i recently bought a better RAM (16GB) but the graphics card still uses 512MB even though it could use a lot more.
I already looked on the internet and saw that you could change the amount used in the BIOS, but i assume its because my pc is a prebuilt i don't have the option to change the dedicated memory.
I have also seen people say to trick a game to use more dedicated memory or something but couldn't find anything on how to do that...
Can anyone help me?
 
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There seems to be some confusion here, an HD 7560D is NOT a dedicated card, it's a GPU built-in to the CPU, just like Intel HD Graphics. AMD call this an APU.

APUs don't have VRAM like a dedicated graphics card; it uses system RAM instead.

With a dedicated graphics card, data is constantly being read and written to the VRAM, and the speed of this transfer is vital for good gaming performance. As an APU uses system RAM, it's vital that the system RAM is of a high speed; 1866Mhz should be the absolute minimum.

In summary, it's not the amount of RAM that really matters, but the speed of it.
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what your trying to do is aimed towards apu you can change the amount of ddr3 ram that is allocated for graphics processing, you however have a discreet card (a video card that has its own memory built in) my first question is what are the specs of your pc and following that I would recommend a card that is meant to be used for games depending on what you have as it will change my card recommendation...there is a way to use ram as vram but it will be significantly slower and if your gaming with this pc it will not benefit you in the least
 
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The specs of my pc are:
AMD A8-5500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 3.2GHz
AMD Radeon HD 7560D with 512 MB of dedicated video RAM
16GB of RAM

I searched online and I found that my video card uses my system RAM (if I understood correctly), before my pc used 4GB of ram so the video card used those 512B, and I thought that having 16GB now i could dedicate some of those to the video card.
I will be honest I didn't find a lot of information but that's why i have the question posted :)
 
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Your card have ram know as vram built into it it is physically on the card your apu however uses the sustem ram but if your useing a video card the apu is typically disabled so the answer to your question is if you need more vram upgrade your graphics card to something with at least to 2gb of vram
 
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There seems to be some confusion here, an HD 7560D is NOT a dedicated card, it's a GPU built-in to the CPU, just like Intel HD Graphics. AMD call this an APU.

APUs don't have VRAM like a dedicated graphics card; it uses system RAM instead.

With a dedicated graphics card, data is constantly being read and written to the VRAM, and the speed of this transfer is vital for good gaming performance. As an APU uses system RAM, it's vital that the system RAM is of a high speed; 1866Mhz should be the absolute minimum.

In summary, it's not the amount of RAM that really matters, but the speed of it.
 
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So in the end I guess I can't increase the amount that it uses?
If its the case i'll just Look at graphics cards that use dedicated RAM, right it's enough for some games but not other's.
Thank you for the help.
 
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