How To Check How Much Vram You Have Windows 10

How to bank check your VRAM in Windows ten

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Whether you're rocking one of the best gaming laptops or all-time cheap gaming laptops, you should know how to check your VRAM in Windows x.

Knowing how much VRAM you lot have is of import, particularly if you're tackling demanding games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla or Resident Evil Hamlet. Of form, you could discover your VRAM by Googling your GPU, but if you don't know what GPU you have, that tin can be an issue.

If y'all're interested in picking up a laptop or even a desktop with a new Nvidia RTX 30-series GPU, be sure to check out our Nvidia RTX 30-series FAQ first. Here'south how to check your VRAM on Windows 10.

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How to check your VRAM in Windows 10

ane. Type "Brandish Settings" into the Windows 10 search bar and click on the first result if it shows upward. Sometimes Windows 10 volition play games with you and non deliver the goods, so you might have to click on something like "Duplicate or extend to a continued display" or "modify the resolution of the brandish."

2. Scroll downwards to the bottom of the Display page and click on Advanced Brandish Settings.

3. Click on the highlighted text at the bottom that reads Display adapter backdrop for Brandish ane (or Brandish ii if that'southward your main display).

four. You'll see your VRAM, or Dedicated Video Retention, in the tab that pops up. However, if your laptop has two GPUs like mine does, you'll just encounter the Intel GPU.

5. If you have two GPUs, go alee and type "Run" into the Windows 10 search bar and open the app.

6. Type "dxdiag" into the bar and click OK. If it gives you a prompt nearly connecting to the internet, click Yes.

7. When the DirectX Diagnostic Tool opens, click on Brandish two; yous should run into the information most your detached GPU. The VRAM you lot have can exist found at Display Retention.

Nosotros hope that this helps you to hands check your VRAM in Windows ten. If you lot're looking for other tips similar this i, yous should cheque out our Windows 10 guide, as well as our numerous out of the box tips for when you buy a laptop.

Rami Tabari is an Editor for Laptop Mag. He reviews every shape and course of a laptop equally well equally all sorts of cool tech. You tin detect him sitting at his desk surrounded by a hoarder's dream of laptops, and when he navigates his style out to civilization, you lot can catch him watching really bad anime or playing some kind of painfully difficult game. He'southward the best at every game and he just doesn't lose. That'due south why you'll occasionally catch his byline fastened to the latest Souls-like challenge.