Dedicated video memory displaying 2048mb, regardless of having a 6gb graphics card

[Sinteu]

I recently bought an MSI GTX 1060 6GB graphics card, however my system is only showing 2048mb dedicated memory.

So just wondering why 6gb isn't showing up as dedicated?
I've updated my motherboard bios and I do have the latest drivers installed.

Chip Type: GeForece GTX 1060 6GB
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Adapter Sting: GeForece GTX 1060 6GB
Bios Information: Version 86.6.e.0.27

Total Available Graphics Memory: 5861 MB
Dedicated Video Memory: 2048 MB
System Video Memory: 0 MB
Shared System Memory: 3813 MB

System Info:

Windows Home Premium 64bit
Intel i5-4440 3.1GHz
MSI Z97-G55 Motherboard
16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 RAM
MSI GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G
OCZ 240GB SSD, SanDisk 128GB SSD, Seagate 1TB HDD

 

[MrN1ce9uy]

I'm not sure where you were seeing this, but I know my GTX 1060 6GB (and other's as well) only showed 4GB of vram when I was using Heaven Benchmark. From what I remember it was nothing to worry about.

 

[OneGoalOneDream]

I had almost same issue. I bought last week RX 480 Nitro+ OC which is 8GB my shared memory was 3840MB. I posted the issue here one guy said He has Geforce 1070 and it shows on him 16GB shared memory I really don't know how this stupid shared memory works