Do I have seperate video memory or a seperate video card in my laptop?

[geekgirrl]

I have the pavilion dv7-6135dx.

When I look up my model number on HP's site it says: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6490m

When I go into my display settings it says: Mobile Intel HD graphics 3000

Total Available graphics memory 5093 MB

Dedicated Video Memory 1280 MB

System Video Memory 0 MB

Shared System Memory 3813 Mb

What does all this mean?

Do I have a seperate video card or is it seperate video card mounted to the mother board?

Best Buy said I could upgrade the video memory from 6 MB to 8 or 12MB I think. How can I find out for sure.

HP doesnt say anything on the site about max video memory.

Thanks

[banhien · Accepted solution]

Hi,

That simply means your machine has TWO video "cards" one is Intel called onboard video card and another one called dedicated video card. 

Please read more from this:

   http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c02731962&jumpi...

Regards.

[geekgirrl]

Wow! Thanks! I feel like I have seen the light!
How can I see the memory stats for the ATI card?

[banhien]

Hi,

1Gb dedicated.

Regards.

[geekgirrl]

Ok, so what do these stats mean and where do I find out what I can upgrade the memory to?

I have yet to find those numbers on HP's site.

Total Available graphics memory 5093 MB

Shared System Memory 3813 Mb

[banhien]

Hi,

This is for Vista but very similar to Windows 7:

  http://windows.bigresource.com/Vista-shared-system-video-memory-hNbVVqfo.html

Regards.

[geekgirrl]

That thread really didnt help. It was kind of all over the place and didnt relate in my mind, but maybe I just dont understand how it applies. I wish HP put more info about their pc's on the website. I mean, Really? They dont even tell me what the video ram is upgradeable to.