AMD Radeon 6770M Displaying Wrong VRAM amount in Bootcamp

Hi,
I am an avid gamer and recently I have decided to install Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (Late 2011) via BootCamp.
Some of the games run natively on both OSx and Win7, so when I booted up a game on Windows and got significantly worse performance that I did on the Mac OSx side I was concerned.
I then opened up DiaxDg to view my Display information and got the following;
Card name: AMD Radeon HD 6770M
       Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
          Chip type: ATI display adapter (0x6740)
           DAC type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
         Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_6740&SUBSYS_00F8106B&REV_00
    Display Memory: 707 MB
   Dedicated Memory: 1008 MB
      Shared Memory: 3795 MB
       Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz)
On OSx, if I go into about my mac then more details or whatever, it displays the correct 1g amount.
My question really is this; is my graphics card performing badly/faulty or is it just not displaying the correct VRAM amount? If it is not displaying the correct amount, is this actually effecting performance or is the card functioning with 1g and the performance issues are all in my head?
I am really clueless about this sort of thing.. Any help would be appreciated.

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