VRAM

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noun

video memory (an area of a computer's memory used to hold data used by a graphics processing unit)

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nounVRAM (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of video random access memory (“random access memory used by graphics processing units”).
  2. uncountablecomputingvideo memory (an area of a computer's memory used to hold data used by a graphics processing unit)
  3. abbreviationinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of Video RAM, a variant of DRAM invented in 1980 and used to store the framebuffer in some graphics adapters.

    Using the hardware blitter to move bitmaps from VRAM to VRAM is much faster than moving them from system memory to VRAM.

    2002, André LaMothe, Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, page 315

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