Would my gaming performance be better if I'd allocate more memory to my APU A10-7800?

teddyz · Jul 2, 2015

Hey guys,

I've recently built a PC with an AMD A10-7800 processor, with integrated APU r7 Series. I Have 8 GB of 1600mhz ram, and an mobo AMD A58M-A.

As my performance in games hasn't been what I was expecting (i can't even run Assassins Creed Unity or The Witcher 3 in the minimun settings) I was wondering if it wouldn't be better to allocate another 1GB of Ram to the APU (I currently have 1024MB allocated)

Thanks a lot for your help

techgeek · Jul 2, 2015

I think it more a limitation of the hardware and not the memory resources. APU's aren't particularly fast when it comes to graphics. Both games you've listed are very GPU intensive.

I'm not familiar with how memory is allocated to the GPU portion of the APU, but if it's easy to assign memory to it, then you can always test it and see. It's not going to hurt to try.

APU's themselves aren't powerful. More so when you come to the memory access. VRAM (dedicated video memory) is much faster than the DDR3 you have on your motherboard. Therefore even if you allocate more to the GPU portion, it's limited by the slow narrow bus that the data must be transferred over.

teddyz · Jul 2, 2015

It's just these two games require 2gb of vram, all the others that dont are fine

techgeek :

techgeek · Jul 2, 2015

teddyz :

Like I said, if it's easy to allot more to the GPU, I'd say go for it and see if it makes a difference.

One other thing that I've heard that makes some difference is using faster RAM. Of course not all APU's IMC's will run faster RAM, but if your lucky, DDR3 2400 should be doable. That said the money would be better saved to buy a discrete graphics card and eliminate the on-die GPU altogether.

Search

Would my gaming performance be better if I'd allocate more memory to my APU A10-7800?

teddyz

Honorable

techgeek

techgeek

Splendid

teddyz

Honorable

techgeek

Splendid

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page