Is it possible to increase the amount of VRAM on a Macmini5,2 motherboard?

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gnommak2014-01-07 00:03:43

Mac Mini

gnommak, 2014-01-07 00:03:43

I am wondering if it is possible to increase the built-in memory of Mac mini (Mac mini 2011, Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz ,AMD 6630 256 GDDR5)?
After reading your post "Upgrade discrete graphics MacBook Pro 15" late 2011…", I decided to find out if this is possible for my mini?
I have already disassembled the computer and found two 1Gb Hynix H5GQ1H24BFR-T2C chips (sorry for the quality):
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I also found out that there are chips of the same parameters for 2Gb - H5GQ2H24MFR-T2C

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Nikolay45, 2014-01-07
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I don't know the direct answer to your question, but I would like to ask a related question. What will the increase in dedicated video memory from 256MB to 512MB give? The bus width will remain the same - 64bit, and the frequency there is not high, about 2GHz. What does not fit into the video memory is still stored in a dedicated area of RAM. If 2 memory modules are installed, then a dual-channel exchange mode is used and this is not the bottleneck in the system.