Just looking to find out how much video ram my Intel HD Graphics 4000 is currently using as I can only see the max available.
I may be wrong, but if I understand correctly:
It should be listed in the bottom half of that screen with the title VRAM (Dynamic, Max)
I used boot camp to install Windows 7 64-bit. On Windows 7 I can find out the dedicated video memory (VRAM) easily by exploring my graphical settings. I want to find out how to do this in Mac OSX so I can figure out if my boot camped Windows 7 is getting less dedicated video memory than my Mac OSX. The reason I suspect this is that many online forums suggest that a Macbook Pro with 4GB RAM should be getting 384mb.
I think I didn't make myself clear enough. When i said currently using I didn't mean at a certain time. What I meant is how much of the system memory is OSX allowing my graphics card to have. On Windows via boot camp it says 64mb but on a machine with 4GB RAM surely it should be higher?
I did try a gpu monitoring software - atMonitor. VRAM stayed at 0% the whole time; i didn't play any games on it though.
This may or may not be the exact model MBP that you have but all HD 4000 graphics have the same specifications:
Ciao.
No it's not because VRAM available is not variable. It depends on the amount of RAM in your computer. And ive come to understand that a computer with 4GB RAM should have much more than 64mb VRAM available. To clarify on that last point, i checked the amount of vram available in my boot camped windows os but suspect that maybe less vram is being made available to my windows os
Look for Mac GPU monitoring software on the Internet.
Ciao.
Yes but each system has different amount of memory assigned to the graphics card. Thats why it says up to. Im trying to find out how much is assigned to my system.
I cannot assist you on that.
Ciao,
Isn't it enough to know what can be used "up to" ? This is a variable amount which you can monitor with the information Ogelthorpe gave you.
Read my post again. See what is used and you will see that it varies.
What more do you want to know? Do a large 3 D rendering job and you will see.
No i understand that more of the VRAM is used when your playing a game. But knowing the percentage of it being used doesnt help me understand how much is available to my system
I give up, pffff, sorry.
How to find out how much video ram my laptop is using?
