See Exactly What’s Eating Your Graphics Card Memory
Your game stutters, your AI model refuses to load, or your video editor throws an “out of GPU memory” error. Task Manager tells you the graphics memory is full, but not who is holding it. Browsers, chat apps, overlays and Windows itself all take a slice, and none of them tell you.
VramMonitor answers that in seconds: See exactly which programs are eating your graphics card memory, biggest first, updated every 2 seconds.
Works on Your PC, Not Just Gaming Rigs
Works on NVIDIA cards and on integrated graphics, showing shared GPU memory just like Task Manager. Laptops and office PCs with built-in graphics borrow system memory instead of having their own, and VramMonitor shows exactly how much of it is in use.
What It Does
A live list of every graphics-memory user
- Every program holding graphics memory, biggest first, with its own icon.
- Columns for dedicated memory, shared memory, GPU load, and whether it is an App or part of Windows.
- A bar at the top shows how full the card is, with used and free memory in plain numbers.
- Group by app adds up all of Chrome’s (or Edge’s, or Discord’s) helper processes into one honest total.
- Filters hide the tiny users so the real culprits stand out, and the status bar tells you how much is hidden.
End the hog in one click, safely
- Select a program and press End Task. Six seconds later a message tells you how much memory actually came back.
- If something relaunches the program behind your back, VramMonitor tells you that too.
- Core Windows processes are refused outright, and desktop processes get an extra warning, so you can’t crash your PC by accident.
- Right-click any row to open its file location, copy the row, or copy its full command line (handy for telling two python.exe jobs apart).
Save Additional VRAM
One window collects the Windows and app settings that quietly hold graphics memory, each rated Low, Medium or High impact:
- Instant switches: transparency effects, window animations and the Xbox Game Bar background recorder.
- App settings: hardware acceleration for VS Code and Discord, and a one-click CPU-only relaunch for Spotify, Slack, Steam and Discord.
- Admin settings: Chrome and Edge hardware acceleration, multi-plane overlay and GPU scheduling, all applied together with a single permission prompt.
- Shortcuts straight to the right Windows page for display resolution, HDR, Widgets, Phone Link and startup apps, plus the NVIDIA app and Control Panel settings.
- Every setting is backed up before it changes, and one Restore all button puts everything back.
Plain-English help everywhere
Hover any button or setting and a short tip explains what it does, what changes when it is off, and what you will notice. A full illustrated user guide (PDF) is included in the download.
Requirements
- Windows 10 or Windows 11
- AutoHotkey v2.0.2 or newer
- No administrator rights needed to run. Windows asks for permission only when you end a protected program or apply a system-wide setting.
- NVIDIA driver optional: with it you get exact card-wide numbers; without it, Windows’ own graphics counters are used.
Stop guessing what filled your graphics card. See exactly which programs are eating your graphics card memory, biggest first, updated every 2 seconds.
