Question does an 4gb video card help with the lack of ram?

[kifirefox]

i'm in doubt, do you think a ddr3 or 5 video card with 2, 4 gb will help if i only have 8 gb of ram?
I have a 2gb gddr3 and a 1gb gddr5, only more powerful, but I was thinking of using the 2gb gddr3 to compensate for the capacity, not the power.

 

[helpstar]

for which purpose? which motherboard and CPU are you using?

Video RAM and RAM are not the same and cannot be used like you want it to. There is a technology which is the resizable bar, but this would put RAMcapacity into the vram so the GPU could "render" more, but not the other way around

 

[SkyNetRising]

do you think a ddr3 or 5 video card with 2, 4 gb will help if i only have 8 gb of ram?

What?
More vram helps with tasks, where more vram is required.
More system ram helps with tasks, where more system ram is required.
They serve different purposes and are not interchangeable.

If your system doesn't have enough system ram, then no amount of graphics card vram will be able to help with that.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, it should. The more dedicated VRAM (video ram, video memory) you have, the less RAM you need. I hope that helps!

Please....describe to us how that works.
Video RAM takes over from system RAM?

Be as detailed as you can. And no bot comments.

 

[COLGeek]

Yes, it should. The more dedicated VRAM (video ram, video memory) you have, the less RAM you need. I hope that helps!

Not sure what you are referring to here. Video memory (on a GPU) is completely separate and distinct from system memory, so the "more/less" you are referring to really isn't directly applicable.

 

[Avro Arrow]

No, you can't use dedicated VRAM on a video card as system RAM. They're completely different subsystems. The only time they overlap is with an IGP that uses system RAM because it has none of its own but that's in the opposite direction only.