Reduction for 2.1GB reserved RAM for Integrated Graphics

[abhirup73]

Hello, I recently bought a HP Pavillion laptop

Processor:AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega 8 Integrated graphics 

Memory: 8GB 

Dedicated Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 4GB VRAM

So I was checking Task Manager and I found that I can use only 5.9GB of RAM and 2.1 GB is reserved for the integrated GPU.

due to this I am getting less usable RAM and most of the reserved RAM is not even getting used. Since there is a the dedicated GPU which is used for most thing. I get that the integrated GPU is still required for the windows GUI and various other operations but I am sure 2.1GB is too much being reserved for it. Is there any way I can reduce the reserved RAM? I have tried checking in the BIOS but the required options are locked away in HP

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to decrease the amount of hardware reserved memory.

HP released this document a while back, which explains the memory shortage...

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06526774

This seems to only apply to models with AMD Ryzen 3xxx processors.

Info on Microsoft PlayReady.

https://www.microsoft.com/playready/overview/

You may want to consider adding another 8 GB of memory in the empty memory slot.

[abhirup73]

Thanks for that, Upgrading RAM is the only thing that can be done now. If i upgrade to 16GB will it reserve more memory?
And as you said it happens in Ryzen 5 3000 series, that is it doesn't apply to any other ryzen CPUs?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Yes, if you need more memory, you will need to add more memory.

It appears that it applies only to the Ryzen processors that are Ryzen 3, 5, 7-3xxx series.

My notebook has a Ryzen 5 4500U and there is no memory 'tax,' other than the 512 MB used for the onboard Vega graphics.

I also believe that if you add an 8 GB memory chip, the amount of reserved memory will be pretty much as it is now  (- 2 GB).

It definitely won't go to - 4 GB.

[abhirup73]

Thanks again for clearing the doubts!

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.

Glad to have been of assistance.