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Old 01-29-2018, 06:35 AM   #5316
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What would cause a video card to only be using some of it's available memory? It's a 3GB card, but in game GPU-Z shows the "Memory Usage (Dedicated) only going to ~500MB. It's a Gigabyte 7970 (GV-R797D5-3GD-B).
What game/application are you running that the GPU is using 500MB? I have a 1080 with 8GB, and I don't think I've ever seen it using up all of the memory while using it for daily tasks/games.
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