In this post, we have explained the meaning of Shared GPU memory and Dedicated GPU memory in the Windows operating system.

Vid card is a PCIe GeForce 8500GT with 512 meg dedicated memory. Why does Vista show 255 meg shared memory in use? Another vid card, GeForce 6600 128 meg dedicated showed the same shared mem.

Just like your PC’s system memory, graphics cards and laptop GPUs have their own memory, called VRAM (video RAM). Graphics memory is mostly important for gaming, but there are productivity and ...