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Why my laptop uses only 128mb video memory instead of 8gb?

Anonymous
2023-07-18T17:52:21+00:00

My laptop has an Intel Iris Xe GPU with 8gb video memory but when I saw it in settings it showed this:

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  1. DaveM121 872.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-07-18T18:30:05+00:00

    Hi Frenki,

    I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    Intel integrated graphics like Intel Iris Xe does not have any dedicated VRAM, it is only the driver that fools the operating system into thinking it has 128Gb of VRAM so you can install games and software, because Intel graphics is located on you Intel processor, it is only dedicated graphics cards (Nvidia, AMD...etc.) that have VRAM.

    Intel graphics uses shared system RAM, and the amount it can share is usually up to half your system RAM and that amount is managed by Windows.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-28T07:47:50+00:00

    I have 16GB ram but only 128mb vram

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-12T06:40:34+00:00

    wait, so does that mean if my laptop has 8 gb ram with iris xe, that means that i have a total of 4 gb ram of iris xe? since it used half of the available ram?

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-01T19:30:23+00:00

    so can it go upto 8 gbs?

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