Where has this extra 4Gb come from?

[gore.daniel9]

I have a 1050Ti 4Gb installed, and in the task manager it shows a max of 8Gb GPU memory. I'm curious where this extra 4Gb came from? If it was pulling it from my system memory then how can I reduce the amount it is sharing?

 

[BadAsAl]

Do you have an AMD board?
It could definitely be pulling it from RAM. You can confirm in System specs, it should say something like 8GB (4GB useable).
You might be able to adjust, what board and CPU do you have?

 

[gore.daniel9]

Yeah AMD board, GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0 and CPU is FX-8350 (4Ghz, 8 core). Where can I find that in system specs?

 

[BadAsAl]

The reason I mentioned AMD is because I have seen a lot of posts of AMD users saying their RAM is only half available. I don't know if this happens on Intel boards but I have never had it.

Windows 7, right click on My Computer and select Properties to see system specs.
In Windows 10 I just type "control panel" in the search box and once in there I click on System.
You will see Installed Memory (RAM) and there will be the amount and how much is usable.

 

[gore.daniel9]

In the system spec is shows 8Gb installed and that's it. I'll look into the BIOS to see if it is sharing the memory. It doesn't show anything about what's available however.

 

[Mark RM]

Any Windows system will be allocate system memory to the graphics card in a shared memory pool. It's not assigned in a hard fashion and any modern game you try and start won't let Windows actually do this - it will just stick to whatever RAM is on the card. Where it does come in handy is some types of non memory speed intensive GPU accelerated applications where the extra latency doesn't really matter.

What's available to the card on that tab is not what's actually hard assigned or in use by the card. That memory is more likely to be used by the system or application if you start opening programs.

 

[gore.daniel9]

Do you have an AMD board?
It could definitely be pulling it from RAM. You can confirm in System specs, it should say something like 8GB (4GB useable).
You might be able to adjust, what board and CPU do you have?

Yeah it's an AMD board, Gigabye GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0 and FX-8350. Where abouts should it say the system specs?