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On Tue, 3 May 2016, Manish Jain wrote:

> Is there any way I can find out whether the video RAM is part of the main 
> memory or is it wired into a chip ?

If it has an Intel GPU only, then video RAM is from system RAM.  If it 
has an additional Nvidia or ATI/AMD GPU... it still probably uses the 
main RAM.

If it has an additional GPU that is truly discrete, that could have its 
own RAM.

So "does it have a second GPU?" is the first question.  Posting the 
exact model number might help answer that.