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My task manager GPU screenshot
My PC specs:
1. GPU - GTX 1060 - 6GB
2. Ram - 16 Gigs
3. CPU - Intel Core i7 8750H
My task manager says that I have
1. Dedicated GPU - 6 GB (which is correct)
2. Shared GPU - 7.9 GB (shared between RAM and GPU, but how ?)
3. GPU memory - 13.9 GB (I want to know how can I use this whole thing ? if I can that is.)
So my questions are..
1. How is shared GPU memory determined ?
2. Does my RAM and CPU affect the shared GPU memory ?
3. How can my total GPU memory be used or when does it get used ?
ASHu2
Posted 2019-03-23T03:40:38.890
Reputation: 111
1Generally speaking, you don't want to. You have plenty of dedicated GPU memory and having the GPU access the motherboard RAM is much slower than accessing the dedicated memory. This shared memory thing is mostly useful for graphics cards that are slow anyway or are heavily VRAM constrained. It will likely cause frame rates to tank on a system like yours. (This is why integrated GPUs use such heavy texture compression.) – David Schwartz – 2019-03-23T08:01:34.360