After many years of being largely an afterthought, VRAM is suddenly a hot topic du jour in gaming. But what is it, why are so many PC games now using more of it, and how can you optimize your PC to ...

Valve's Steam Deck handheld automatically adjusts its minimum VRAM allocation in its native Linux-based OS, but you can manually set a value between 256MB to 4GB (of the 8GB available to its GPU) to ...

VRAM — video memory — is what your graphics card uses to store textures, lighting data, shadows, reflections, and all the other visual assets that make your PC games look the way they should. That ...

Computers have RAM, Random Access Memory. So do graphics cards. Why does your system need two copies of the same part doing the same job? The answer is complicated — in a lot of ways, a discrete ...

Perhaps there is still some hope for GPUs with low VRAM. According to a new patent published by Microsoft, the company worked out a method that could make ray tracing and path tracing more viable in ...