GPU used... what should i trust?

[kniggit92]

No. This is what I meant with the VRAM part:

 

VRAM is where graphics get buffered into, you need a lot of 2k/4k textures to fill up 2GB of ram, you aren't going to achieve that with just some minor mods and a light ENB. The reason Skyrim isn't using up more memory than that is because it doesn't need to.

If Skyrim was somehow blocked from using your VRAM, you would be getting blue textures, which obviously isn't the case for you so there isn't any problem with your VRAM.

VRAM is NOT useless, it never is. You NEED vram. The ammount of vram you need is not linked to your clock speed, they are separate. VRAM depends on the ammount of data being buffered into your GPU. Clockspeed is how fast you utilize that memory (memory clock speed) and how fast you process graphical data (regular GPU clock speed).

 

The more/bigger textures you load the more VRAM you need to not crash (skyrim can crash if your vram gets filled up completely)

 

The more/bigger textures you have the more clock speed you need to be able to buffer and load them all with good FPS.

Edited March 3, 2015 by kniggit92