Ram to vram on windows 10?

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RedHaze1911

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So i was watching a youtuber test out 980ti sli on 8k and it displayed 11 gigs of ram with the afterburner thingy even tho the 980ti has 6 gigs and he went on to explain that in windows 10 when the gpu runs out of vram it uses plain old ram to substitute.... So i ask you,the mythbusters of toms hardware... is this correct or is this myth definetly busted?
 
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DirectX has been sharing swapping VRAM into RAM since Direct3D 9, more than a decade ago. The memory amount that you see reported thus includes both total VRAM and allocated system RAM for VRAM paging.
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