Questions tagged [v-ram]

Video Random Access Memory(VRAM) is a special-purpose memory used by video adaptors.

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How to check video memory size?

Is there a way to check the size of the video memory? Specifically, is there one that works accurately for both integrated GPU's as well as PCI/AGP graphics cards? Many integrated GPU's have dynamically allocated memory, so the solution would…
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RX 580 8GB not using more than 2GB memory

My AMD RX 580 does not use all its memory (8GB) but only up to 2GB what could possibly be wrong? I use ubuntu 17.10 with the latest kernel (4.13) my GPU shows up as Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 / DRM 3.18.0 / 4.13.0-18-generic, LLVM 5.0.0) on…
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On Ubuntu and in hardware is it possible to extend GPU DRAM with CPU RAM

I am doing machine learning on an Nvidia 2080TI GPU using PyTorch. It has 11GB of DRAM and I have 32GB of CPU RAM. I have to carefully tune my batch to fit inside 11GB. Using CUDA unified memory I should be able to prevent CUDA out of memory…
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Open-source virtual machine apps supporting larger VRAM than 256 MB

I have tried Virtual Box running Windows 10 with it, but all i get is 256 MB of video memory, while I have a 4 GB VRAM video card. When I try with VM Ware the video memory is increased to about 3GB and Windows runs much faster and better. VM WARE…
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Ubuntu 18.04 not showing maximum usable ram

Specs - CPU - Ryzen 5 2400G Motherboard - MSI B450 gaming plus RAM - Corsair Vengeance 8GB x 2 I am Using two displays - HDMI && DVI I installed ubuntu 18.04 and it shows only 13.7GB ram out of 16GB And When I use only one ram stick it shows 5.8…
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Windows 8 host, Virtual Machine with Ubuntu 15.10. Reinstall with more VRAM, is it possible ? Or...?

I'm brand new to VirtualBox and Ubuntu, both. I have an HP 2000 laptop, 4 GIG of RAM and plenty of VRAM, 1.30 gigahertz AMD E-300 APU with Radeon HD Graphics,128 kilobyte primary memory cache, 1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache, 64-bit ready,…
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How to allocate RAM for nvidia graphics card? I'm running out of video memory :(

Today I installed ubuntu, I'm trying Linux for the first time. I'm a big noob. And sorry for my english When I was using Windows, running multiple applications at the same time, my video memory would quickly run out, as I have a gtx1050 with 2…