Depending on the way you wanted this to be answered, GDDR3, and GDDR5 are both common types of graphics RAM. Or if your question was supposed to be asked a different way, most cards have dedicated video ram. This is helpful in gaming situations as most of the latest games require at least 1gig of dedicated vram in order to properly run at the highest settings. Remember not all cards are of the same architecture. If you see a $20 card with 1gig of video ram it's probably not the same as the $400 card with 1gig of video ram.
Yes it is.
You can not convert the RAM that is on the PC to RAM for your graphics card. The only way to get RAM for a graphics card is to buy one that already has RAM on it. The graphics cards that have their own RAM are normally higher end ones that cost about $50-$70 for the cheapest ones.
Only if you have an integrated graphics card that is built into your motherboard can it take advantage of your ram.
no graphics cards have there own built in video ram The above answer is only partially correct. If a computer had onboard graphics, where there is no dedicated graphics card, then the graphics chip is on the motherboard itself. In this case, it will use the system RAM for memory. This can reduce the total amount available to the system. So if you have onboard graphics (no dedicated graphics card), then a dedicated GPU(graphics processing unit) could in fact increase available RAM. However, the difference is not likely to be large. RAM is cheap. Your best option is to buy more RAM for your system.
No, it's a type of RAM
You have insufficient RAM, even though you have a nice graphics card you need at least 1.0GB RAM or if you are running on Vista, you will need 2.0GB RAM.
Depends. If you have only 1GB RAM, the game will lag. If you have a lower end graphics card, it will hardly run or wont run at all. A better graphics card is best but more RAM will help.
Unless you are using onboard (Motherboard) graphics they are totally different
You cannot use normal computer RAM to be dedicated to graphics. The only way you would be able to get RAM that is completely dedicated to graphics would be to buy a video card that has RAM built into it.
Nope it doesn't matter what kind of ram you have in your graphics card as they are used for different things What does matter is what type of slots your computer has. Mine, for example, has slots only for PCI cards and I must buy PCI. You can find out what type of slots your computer has by calling TigerDirect. Start with what type of graphics card your computer can use.
It is called a video card or graphics card. Video hardware can be integrated on the motherboard. This is usually called integrated graphics or on-board graphics & it maybe low-performance & undesirable for those wishing to run 3D applications. disabling of the integrated graphics chip is enabled when adding a higher-performance graphics card in the PCI Express slot or the older AGP slot. A dedicated ATI or nVidia graphics card has it's own RAM and Processor specifically for processing video images & thus offloads this work from the CPU and system RAM.
Why in gods name would you!!