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Comment by fluffybucktsnek

18 hours ago

Out of curiosity, may I ask why?

Generally in our IT jargon writing "vRAM" would mean some sort of virtualized RAM thing, while VRAM shows the V is part of the initialism and thus VIDEO RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY. Nothing formal, just informal usage.

I don't know, I guess some rule about the capitalization of acronyms. But I have seen it written as VRAM since the early '90s when it meant dual-ported video RAM. I think this is the first time I see it written as vRAM with a lowercase v.