Question Why is my Bios doesnt have graphic option to change vram?

[_.mmarann]

So i just build my first PC using old hardwares..I use Asus H110m-K D3 motherboard and I5-6500 CPU and using a dedicated graphic

In my bios, it doesnt have the option to change my vram settings(currently i have 0 vram)...I search on the web and couldnt find anything

There shouldve been a NB configuration option in Advanced mode but mine doesnt....Please help me

 

[boju]

Can't increase vram since it's a physical amount on the graphics card. Igpu you can allocate a portion of memory but that's different.

Post a screenshot of gpuz.

And check video cable is connected to graphics card not the motherboard, connected to motherboard will prioritise igpu.

 

[Andrew Fox]

On modern systems the vram is automatically provided to the BIOS & OS by the BIOS of the video card itself. You don't need to (and can't) configure anything. In BIOS the only ram you can adjust is how much of the system ram is used by your integrated CPU/APU graphics as those reserve a portion of your system ram rather than providing their own DRAM.

 

[boju]

On modern systems the vram is automatically provided to the BIOS & OS by the BIOS of the video card itself.

What do you mean by modern? Vram allocation remains the same since the dawn of graphics cards, it's no different now to back then.

 

[Andrew Fox]

I am only familiar with x86 platforms, I was too young pre-Windows 3.1 era to be an authority that the vram was always correctly negotiated with the hardware. I know back in the day it was a bit of a wild west when it came to hardware.

 

[boju]

I am only familiar with x86 platforms, I was too young pre-Windows 3.1 era to be an authority that the vram was always correctly negotiated with the hardware. I know back in the day it was a bit of a wild west when it came to hardware.

From then until now, graphics cards vram allocation on hardware level hasn't changed. Modern systems hasn't changed anything in that regard.

 

[_.mmarann]

Can't increase vram since it's a physical amount on the graphics card. Igpu you can allocate a portion of memory but that's different.

Post a screenshot of gpuz.

And check video cable is connected to graphics card not the motherboard, connected to motherboard will prioritise igpu.

I meant to say integrated instead of Dedicated (sorry)

im using intel hd530 igpu

https://imgur.com/a/QMhbPa2

View: https://imgur.com/a/QMhbPa2



Another thing is dat i cant enable XMP in my bios..do u know why is that?

 

[boju]

Xmp above cpu memory controller isn't achievable with your motherboard so memory speed is maxed out according to cpu specifications which Intel lists if you search your processor, that will say maximum memory speed.

Regarding igpu vram, don't worry about that. There's confusion sometimes how this works. How memory is allocated is based on need, igpu will use as much as it can automatically. There should be settings for it in bios but the actual amount you set will be locked away only to be used by igpu so you'll actually have less ram for other things.

 

[BFG-9000]

It's the truth, you do have 0 VRAM. The default is the driver dedicates 128MB of system memory to the IGP and the only reason you would adjust this is if games will not launch with that.

If you think increasing this dedicated amount will somehow increase performance then sorry to disappoint but it won't--any additional memory the driver assigns will have exactly the same performance as that first 128MB, so may as well let the driver assign more only as needed up to 2GB. Especially since as mentioned, anything you manually increase it to would then not be usable by the CPU for other things.