From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Dec 4 23:54:12 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D598C67CA9 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2016 23:54:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.141]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0342AB8 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2016 23:54:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ppp121-45-104-245.bras2.adl6.internode.on.net (HELO leader.local) ([121.45.104.245]) by ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 05 Dec 2016 10:24:02 +1030 Subject: Re: How to find out size of graphics card ? To: Manish Jain , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: From: Shane Ambler Message-ID: <2506bb5a-4069-2546-69d6-a4121f58b1a5@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 10:24:00 +1030 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 23:54:12 -0000 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