Does upgrading RAM causes increase in Graphic card's share?

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Published on 2012-06-21T04:22:38Z Indexed on 2012/10/17 5:10 UTC
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I have asked this question on Ask Ubuntu, and I was suggested to Upgrade RAM from most voted answers. But I got a point about my graphics card. Since, I can upgrade RAM and not graphics card, Does upgrading RAM also cause graphics memory to increase.

To clear the point: My specs are given below:
Laptop : Lenovo 3000 Y410. (bought in 2008 October)
RAM: 1 GB (DDR2)
External Graphics (Dedicated): N/A
Internal Graphics (Shared): 256 MB
Graphics Chipset: Intel GMA X3100

My Question is: If I increase my RAM to 3 GB, will it increase graphics cards share of the Memory. In other word, If graphics card shares 256 MB in 1GB RAM, will it share more, when I upgrade the RAM into 2GB or more ?

Authentic resource link will be much appreciated


I have recently known that, My chipset GMA X3100 can address 384 MB of RAM. So the question.

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