How to find out size of graphics card ?

[Shane Ambler]

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.


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Shane Ambler