Hi all, this issue been bothering me for quite sometime. Recently i purchased a Acer Nitro 5 AN515-43-R9B3 come with R5 3550H and RX560x GPU and 4GB 2666Mhz RAM. I installed additional 8GB 2400Mhz RAM to make it total 12GB of RAM but task manager shown 2.1GB as Hardware Reserved. Does Ryzen cpu reserved more ram memory for their integrated Vega 8 comparing to intel cpu? Would like to hear from others owner of Ryzen laptop user.

Yup, only 5.9GB memory is usable. I searched online and seem like i wasnt the only Ryzen 5 user having this issue. The only solution is upgrade to more RAM as Ryzen CPU will reserved more memory for its integrated Vega gpu compare to intel.

Yup, i try look for any video memory setting in BIOS but doesnt seem any setting available

Hi, i didnt think the 2.1GB is being "stolen", just feeling curious is it normal for all Ryzen CPU? Cause 2.1GB Hardware reserved quite alot. Of course i am grateful if this setting is able to adjust cause this laptop does have a dedicated RX560X GPU. Because like you said there must be a reason system automatically reserved so much memory for iGPU.

Seem like upgrading RAM is the only solution. Btw are you a Ryzen laptop owner?

thanks for the feedback. seem like this is very normal for Ryzen CPU.

Thanks for the feedback. Seem like the only solution is upgrading RAM, anyway i've upgraded my RAM to total 16GB and hardware reserved memory still remain at 2.1GB.