sudo lshw -C display
shows …
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:63 memory:c3000000-c3ffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:7000(size=64)
*-display
description: 3D controller
product: GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
resources: irq:65 memory:c4000000-c4ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c0000000-c1ffffff ioport:4000(size=128)
Then I tried
amruth@HP-Ci5:~$ lspci | grep VGA
which returns
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09)
Then I tried
amruth@HP-Ci5:~$ lspci -v -s 00:02.0
which returns
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2337
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 64
Memory at c3000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 7000 [size=64]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: i915
From this can I conclude that my graphics card is just 256Mb. This is my new HP laptop[HP 15-r240TX Notebook (5th Gen Ci5/ 8GB/ 1TB/ Free DOS/ 2GB Graph) (L8P42PA)] from Flipcart. So I plan to request replacement. Thanks for the reply.
Best Answer
mark the digits in front of it. Then do...
Example from my machine:
and
will show all the details of the videocard. edit: seems not all show the memory of the card. This methods works for more than just your videocard: details on network card both wired and wireless, USB controller are also shown (just change the command to 02:00.0, 03:00.0. My audio is on 01:00.1; just check the 1st command for the digits).
So another method: