Take the 2-minute tour ×  Something I never understood, why do
graphics cards usually have small amounts of memory on them? I
know memory isn't everything, but surely it's pretty cheap just
to load 4gb of memory on any old graphics card?  share|improve
this question Why not just write your app more efficiently? – 
Jeremy Visser Feb 28 '11 at 12:13 If I had a dime for every
person that thinks more memory means more performance, I'd be
rich by now. –  Breakthrough Feb 28 '11 at 12:17 So I should
take back my Voodoo5 5000 AGP 4gb? Shucks. –  Nic Feb 28 '11 at
16:32  4 Answers 4  It's not cheap, per se, but it could be
done, yes. It'd raise the price of the card, but it could be
done.  Question is, though, why bother? If your card isn't fast
enough to actually need 4GB of VRAM, it's wasted money, what's
the point. You can have as many textures as you like, but unless
you can actually pull that 4GB of data through for every single
frame, it's wasted.  The more important reason, however, is that
in a 32-bit OS, VRA