what is vram and what kind of speed difference does it make?

[Smithyoffline]

is it faster or slower to have it and how much ram do I have to have to do this? What performance would it do on my system

 

[thatsright]

VRAM; WOW, that takes me back!!

VRAM appeared in the first ever 3D graphics cards in the mid-1990's. (I remember my Diamond Stealth 3D card from 1995 in my 1st ever reap PC. It had 4MB of VRAM and the card cost about $400.) It stands for Video Ram. I guess today's cards could technically (if ya had to be anal retentive about it) could still be called VRAM, but it is really just DDR ram or various versions on today's Radeon & GeForce cards.

BTW, VRAM is not the same as System RAM that you put on your Motherboard.

 

[Cerb]

Many graphics card utilities and 3D apps, plugins for things, etc., still call it VRAM, as that's still kinda correct.
Old VRAM and SGRAM used technology that has either been totally phased out, or was bleeding-edge for memory at the time. Now it's basically the same DDR in your system, but designed with quite a few tweaks to reach high speeds--the joys of not having to cater to hundreds of thousands of different configuration variables. Now there's GDDR3 out as well, as DDR-II was crap for video cards, but DDR is a bit long in the tooth.