VRAM
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[edit]Noun
[edit]VRAM (uncountable)
- (computing) Initialism of video random access memory (random access memory used by graphics processing units)
- (programming) video memory (an area of a computer's memory used to hold data used by a graphics processing unit)
- (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.
Further reading
[edit]- VRAM on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Video RAM (dual-ported DRAM) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia