When Sony's masterpiece The Last of Us Part 1 appeared on the humble PC two years ago, I hoped it would become a watershed moment in the history of console ports. Well, it was, but for all the wrong ...

Discrete graphics cards today often launch with memory capacities of at least 8 GB. In fact, you'll only see 8 GB with the cheapest Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 and 5060 series. That said, although we're ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's Neural Texture Compression (NTC) combined with Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing 1.2 significantly reduces VRAM usage by up to 90%, improving game performance and lowering hardware costs.

Realistic graphics with high-quality textures can consume significant amounts of graphics memory. While having a powerful graphics card is one solution, optimization is also a way to reduce VRAM ...

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 ...

Video Random-Access Memory (VRAM), is a vital component of your graphics card (GPU), designed to hold graphical data. Rather than transferring the information from elsewhere, the GPU can grab directly ...

Graphics card memory, or VRAM, has been a hot topic of discussion over the past few years because we're not really getting enough of it. It's crazy to think that 8 years ago, the GeForce GTX 1070 was ...

Simply using the best graphics card isn't enough if you want top gaming performance. Knowing how much VRAM your graphics card has is also incredibly important. Most games need a certain amount of VRAM ...

Something to look forward to: High-resolution textures are a primary factor behind the growing install sizes and VRAM usage in modern blockbuster games. Nvidia proposed a neural-network-based method ...

Luie loves to play RPGs and is a big fan of Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy, Persona, and the Bokujo Monogatari series. Given that Diablo 4 has just released, it is not surprising for players to ...

We have a guy at our office that has 4 24" displays running at 1920x1200, running off a Matrox PCI quad head video card with 128MB VRAM - which works out to 32MB per screen. (He also has a Matrox ...