{"id":20169,"date":"2017-02-19T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=20169"},"modified":"2017-02-19T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:19:44","slug":"computer-systems-graphics-memory-adapter-ram-vs-total-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-systems-graphics-memory-adapter-ram-vs-total-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer systems:  graphics memory:  adapter RAM vs total memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares ideas about adapter RAM (aka dedicated RAM, vRAM, discrete RAM) vs total.<\/h1>\n<p>Apparently, adapter RAM is physically dedicated to graphics.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of graphics memory, total memory refers to system RAM available for processing graphics.  (From my limited observation, it may not include adapter RAM.  Rather, it&#8217;s the chunk of the computer&#8217;s RAM allocated to graphics presentation.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have much experience with video RAM, but from what I&#8217;ve seen, adapter RAM appears the more meaningful number when considering if a system meets a program&#8217;s requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FE5aSqnZRBI\">eHow tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\nhttps:\/\/www.computing.net\/answers\/gaming\/what-is-adapter-ram-in-a-pc\/14061.html\">www.computing.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/forums\/discussions\/pc-video-memory-confusion-dedicated-shared-discrete-oh-my-291147\/\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares ideas about adapter RAM (aka dedicated RAM, vRAM, discrete RAM) vs total. Apparently, adapter RAM is physically dedicated to graphics. In the context of graphics memory, total memory refers to system RAM available for processing graphics. (From &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computer-systems-graphics-memory-adapter-ram-vs-total-memory\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computer systems:  graphics memory:  adapter RAM vs total memory<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2142],"tags":[1040,2143],"class_list":["post-20169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-systems","tag-graphics","tag-video-ram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20169"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20181,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20169\/revisions\/20181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}