VRAM

Your graphics card relies on VRAM—Video RAM—as its own dedicated pool of memory, separate from system RAM. Windows users can check how much is available in Settings under Advanced display or in Task Manager's GPU view. When a game stutters after loading a large level, textures appear late, or a creative application slows at high resolution, the workload may have exceeded that local pool. Lowering texture quality, render resolution, or cache size reduces demand. Updating the graphics package can improve memory allocation, but it cannot add physical capacity. Integrated graphics share ordinary system RAM instead, so their dedicated and shared memory figures behave differently from those of a discrete card.