VRAM

English

Noun

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.

Further reading

• VRAM on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Video RAM (dual-ported DRAM) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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