New card, low Vram usage

[Gnuffi]

So i got my new graphics card, a GTX 650 2gb ddr5

and i find it somehow weird that my memory usage never goes up high at all

my gpu will average at around +80ish, with the dips to 99% very nicely
all while temps are nice and stable

but somehow my 2gb vram have never seen any higher than around 830-850 mb usage max, at peaks,
and thats the max i've gotten so far, usually it runs around 500-700mb usage, with various settings in different games to test it

that with my old older, and lower model card, easy topping out its 1gb vram and even ending up short often ofc, and hawking my system ram slowing down performance in such like Rome 2

but the new card just wont use its available amount of ram it seems, not even close, not even half

what gives?

 

[coolcole01]

different architecture are the games playing fine?

 

[Gnuffi]

different architecture are the games playing fine?

yea, the games are playing fine'ish

i mean i can get higher settings than my old card for sure, but not as high as i want/expected,
since like, when i expect to be able to crank up settings to higher, and get decent fps, because i figured it would use more of its vram.
instead its like
say i increase textures to high or very high, and then would expect to see a significant rise in vram usage, and hey it got loads to spare. instead i get very low increase in memory usage, like it went from 730 mb, to only 850(peak) out of its total 2gb, but my performance start to drop,
in the same way my old card would but only first when i exceeded my cards capabilities, and thats a 6 year old geforce 8800GT 1gb btw

 

[Achint2000]

The VRAM depends on your game resolution and anti-aliasing. Play your game on max anti-aliasing and highest resolution supported by ur display and play the game or about 1-3 Hours and you'll see the VRAM Usage go up. The VRM usage is low, that's very nice coz my monitor, I use a custom resolution of 3600 x 2025 on 2GB. 😉