Video Memory Used

Is there an app or utility that would tell me how much RAM the video card is using?
Does it show up under Activity Monitor?
I am trying to trouble shoot a problem just a few of us are having using a projector via the video out showing a quicktime video using Keynote. For my self, at higher projector resolutions, the image begins to flicker, then becomes distorted (tall and skinny in my case), I am just wondering if I am coming up against a video memory limitation since trying the options listed on the keynote forum have not helped.
Thanks in advance.

Seems no one knows for sure. The new MacBooks have a bit more it can access.

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