Acer Swift 3 SF314-41-R8SE -Upgraded RAM to 8GB- only able to use 6 GB as the GPU is allocated 2GB

getaibose

Hi all

I had recently bought an Acer Swift 3 SF314-41-R8SE (AMD Athlon 300U) - I upgraded the RAM from 4 GB to 8 GB

But now, the system allocates 2GB of RAM to the GPU and I am only able to use 6 GB of RAM. I don't need 2 GB of VRAM as this laptop is not used for gaming / any GPU intensive workloads.

How can I reduce the RAM allocated to the GPU? I looked everywhere in the BIOS, but I'm not able to find any setting to do so. My BIOS version is 1.04.

I have an APU desktop with a gigabyte motherboard and in the Gigabyte BIOS, it allows me to change the RAM allocated to the GPU - but I can't find any such option in the ACER BIOS.

Can anyone help me? Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thank You

brummyfan2

Hi,
The memory is allocated by the system and you can not adjust it in BIOS, all you can do is to increase the RAM to 12GB(4GB onboard+8GB) if you are running out of RAM, while you do your normal work, check the memory usage in Task Manager and post the snip, then we can decide whether you need to increase the memory or not.