Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 10:24:00 +1030 From: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@ShaneWare.Biz> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to find out size of graphics card ? Message-ID: <2506bb5a-4069-2546-69d6-a4121f58b1a5@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB0974837E48CE30704060DAD1F6810@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB0974837E48CE30704060DAD1F6810@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On 04/12/2016 01:53, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using a Radeon R5 230 graphics card (Caicos, 1 GB) on my FreeBSD 11 > system. I was trying to ascertain whether the system recognizes the card > as a 1 GB card. > > Here's a couple of snips I get. > > dmesg | grep -i radeon : > > info: [drm] radeon: 1024M of VRAM memory ready > info: [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready. 1024MB equals 1GB - so yes FreeBSD sees that the video card has 1GB VRAM equals video ram The 512M of GTT memory refers to the graphics translation table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_address_remapping_table > b) Are the terms 'graphics memory' and 'video memory' the same ? I ask > this because booting from UBCD (Linux) on my computer, I vaguely > remember/think I got to see 16 MB stated somewhere as the size of video > memory. Yes they are the same thing, being the memory dedicated to displaying an image on the monitor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_card If you saw 16MB then you misread or mixed another devices info with the video card. -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler
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