Video RAM allocation on MBP?

[Bilalo]

Hello all
I was wondering can we allocate more video memory to a MBP laptop? the new rMBP comes with 1 GB of Video memory, is there anyway to transfer any of the 16 GB ram on it to video memory to make it smoother/faster/better etc??? What would you recommend to do to a rMBP to increase its gaming performance...

Thank You

 

[simsaladimbamba]

No, the 1 GB is dedicated VRAM on the AMD GPU, the Intel 4000 HD however uses the main RAM, but still it will be limited to 768 MB RAM as far as I know. You can also not combine those two like with Crossfire or SLI on Windows.

 

[hackerwayne]

Hello all
I was wondering can we allocate more video memory to a MBP laptop? the new rMBP comes with 1 GB of Video memory, is there anyway to transfer any of the 16 GB ram on it to video memory to make it smoother/faster/better etc??? What would you recommend to do to a rMBP to increase its gaming performance...

Thank You

No, unfortunately, the graphics card is a dedicated graphics, unlike integrated ones it can't be allocated more

 

[snaky69]

Hello all
I was wondering can we allocate more video memory to a MBP laptop? the new rMBP comes with 1 GB of Video memory, is there anyway to transfer any of the 16 GB ram on it to video memory to make it smoother/faster/better etc??? What would you recommend to do to a rMBP to increase its gaming performance...

Thank You

No, and even if you could, you would not see a single performance benefit whatsoever.

 

[leman]

If you want to increase the gaming performance you can overclock the card. This is only possible under Windows though.

 

[Bilalo]

If you want to increase the gaming performance you can overclock the card. This is only possible under Windows though.

What is that? Is it recomended? How do i do it?

 

[leman]

What is that? Is it recomended? How do i do it?

Overclocking is purposely increasing speed of the hardware beyond its specification in order to get more performance out of it. Technically, it could void your warranty, so I am not sure about the 'recommended' bit If you are interested, there are tons of guides on the internet about GPU overclocking, just search around a bit.

 

[dusk007]

What is that? Is it recomended? How do i do it?

If the temps stay reasonable it is not a problem. If requires installing modded drivers and you don't sound knowledgeable enough that you should really bother. A significant overclock of 20% is usually too much for the cooling system. The 10% that aren't an issue are probably not worth the trouble.