Increasing dedicated memory for integrated AMD GPU

Dejan Kozarski

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I've seen several similar questions, but nothing for my specific laptop, so sorry if this is considered spamming.

My laptop is an HP Pavilion with the following configuration:

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
AMD A8-7410 quad-core 2.2 GhZ
RAM
8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz
Motherboard
HP 80B2 (P0)
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@60Hz)
1024MB ATI AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (HP)

As you can see, the dedicated VRAM is 1GB, but in my GPU settings it says that the total available graphics is around 4GB. Is there a way to increase the dedicated VRAM in order to be able to play games that require 2GB of dedicated VRAM in the BIOS settings?

I realize the experience might not be great, but I'm stuck with this laptop for the foreseeable future, so might as well make the most of it if at all possible.
 
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Dedicated means physical VRAM. So no, you can't increase that unless you buy a new GPU that has more VRAM on it. It will default to using your regular RAM if it runs out of VRAM, that's where the 4GB-number comes from, but that is far slower than VRAM.
Dedicated means physical VRAM. So no, you can't increase that unless you buy a new GPU that has more VRAM on it. It will default to using your regular RAM if it runs out of VRAM, that's where the 4GB-number comes from, but that is far slower than VRAM.
 
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