What is a Graphic Card?

Graphic Cards can be called many different things including

  • Video Card
  • Video Adapter
  • Graphics-Accelerator Card
  • Display Adapter
  • and Graphics Card
  • it’s purpose is to generate and display images to a monitor. Many video cards have different features including

  • Faster rendering of 3D scenes and 2D graphics
  • Video capturing
  • TV-tuner adapter
  • MPEG-2/MPEG-4 decoding
  • FireWire
  • Light pen
  • TV output
  • Ability to connect multiple monitors
  • Many of newest high performance graphics cards are designed the handle the graphically demanding programs like PC games, and video editing.

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