VRAM

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VRAM (uncountable)

  1. (computing) Initialism of video random access memory (random access memory used by graphics processing units)
  2. (programming) video memory (an area of a computer's memory used to hold data used by a graphics processing unit)
  3. (computing) Initialism of Video RAM (a variant of DRAM invented in 1980 and used to store the framebuffer in some graphics adapters)
    • 2002, André LaMothe, Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, page 315:
      Using the hardware blitter to move bitmaps from VRAM to VRAM is much faster than moving them from system memory to VRAM.

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