Graphics Memory

My first post, so here goes
I have a Pavilion 23 b030ea all in one (non touchscreen) pc - It came with the following
NVIDIA GeForce 610
The graphics card is soldered onto the motherboard
Interface: MXM 3.0
Onboard memory: 1 GB
However, I do not understand regarding the memory side of things - does it mean that the graphics card has its own 1GB memory but the card is soldered to the motherboard so not replacable? If so, does that mean the system ram of 4GB remains independent of the 1GB graphics memory or is the graphics card memory of 1GB constantly eating into the 4GB system memory? Thanks

Hi,
You're correct, the GeForce 610 graphics chip is soldered to the System Board and is not an upgradeable component. It has 1Gb of DDR3 ram which is dedicated to the chip ( ie physically built on to the graphics chip ) which is seperate from your computers 4Gb.
Although it may also have the option to 'share' some of your computers 4Gb of system ram, in reality this doesn't really happen.
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