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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Graphics card graphics adaptor. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A graphics card or video card is a component of a computer which is designed to display images on some sort of display medium, most often a monitor utilising a variety of display standards.
As was in the past, many graphics cards are standalone devices, attached to a motherboard via the ISA, PCI, VESA, or AGP busses. Increasingly, however, the graphics card is no longer a "card" in the strictest sense, but is an integrated section of the motherboard dedicated to the same purpose.
Since integrated-graphics-displays produce inferior performance compared with standalone graphics cards (due to using cheaper chipsets and system memory rather than dedicated memory), many still prefer non-integrated solutions. These more-advanced graphics cards, usually geared toward displaying 3D graphics for games are still card-based. Their processing engines are sometimes called GPUss (Graphics Processing Units). Conversely, sometimes 3D-graphics capibilities are not relevant to the choice of high-performance graphics card; 2D graphics and fine visual-quality fill specialised niches in areas such as medical imaging.
See also : framebuffer graphics.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Graphics card."
Crosswords: GRAPHICS CARD |
| Specialty definitions using "GRAPHICS CARD": Memory Type Range Registers ♦ pre\box. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "GRAPHICS CARD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Graphikkarte. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aphicsgray ardcay placa gráfica, carta gráfica. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-g-h-i-p-r-r-s" | |
-3 letters: cardsharp, characids, diagraphs. | |
-4 letters: agraphic, cardiacs, characid, charpais, diagraph, digraphs, graphics, haircaps. | |
-5 letters: acarids, agarics, aphasic, archaic, ascarid, cardiac, cardias, chadars, charpai, cicadas, digraph, dishrag, gharris, graphic, hagadic, haircap, pardahs, pariahs, picaras, raphias, ricracs, scraich, scraigh. | |
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