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What are graphics cards
There are four main types of graphics cards: integrated, PCI, AGP, and PCI-E. Integrated graphics are built into the motherboard for basic display, while PCI, AGP, and PCI-E cards plug into their respective slots on the motherboard and provide increased performance. NVIDIA and AMD are two major manufacturers of graphics cards, with NVIDIA producing cards like the GeForce and technology like 3D Vision, and AMD producing Radeon cards. The latest, most powerful graphics cards are needed to run the newest, most graphically demanding games.
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- 3. Types Of GraphicsCards Integrated Graphic cards:- • Built in to the motherboard • Serve Basic display functions • Also called On-Board Graphic cards PCI Graphic cards:- • Use PCI Slot on motherboard • Older motherboards have PCI Slots • A little Out-of-date
- 4. AGP Graphic cards:- •Connected with AGP port on motherboard • Have four speeds 1x,2x,4x and 8x • Faster than PCI cards PCI-E Graphic cards:- • Use PCI-E Slot on motherboard • Most advance and powerful cards • PCI-E graphics cards can be accelerated to 16 times
- 5. How Graphic Cardsworks?
- 6. American globaltechnology company based in Santa Clara, California. Manufactures world class GPUs (Graphics Cards) and SOCs (System on the Chip) for mobile computing like “NVIDIA Tegra Series”. Graphics Cards NVIDIA 3D Vision
- 8. NVIDIA 3D Visiontechnology delivers stereoscopic 3D images for gamers, movie-lovers and photo enthusiasts when configured with NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA 3D Vision active shutter glasses, and 3D Vision- Ready display.
- 9. Produced byADVANCE MICRO DEVICES (AMD). Manufactures Graphics Cards and RAMs. Compete Nvidia by producing quality GPUs. It sells Radeon GPUs to third-party manufacturers, who build and sell the Radeon-based video cards to the OEM and retail channels. Manufacturers of the Radeon cards include Sapphire XFX Asus Gigabyte MSI HIS
- 11. Latest games demandlatest graphics cards to run smoothly and show full features. Latest games such as Call of Duty Ghost, Crisis 3, Need for Speed Rivals, Battlefield 4 show realistic and eye popping graphics which need Nvidia SLI OR ATI CrossFireX technologies.
- 13. Lets have alook at some latest graphics cards
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- #3 A graphics card is the "visual center" of a computer's brain. It reads and interprets functions from the internal software and hardware and outputs images to the computer's display. Today's graphics cards are incredibly powerful and perform a variety of useful functions, especially in the world of computer gaming.
- #4 There are many types of graphics cards available. Basic graphics cards, called "graphic controllers" are built in to the motherboard and serve basic display functions while offering few extras. Power users often disable these and install their own. These powerful (and sometimes expensive) graphics cards often include GPUs (graphics processing units) to perform complex geometric calculations, large amounts of video memory to store temporary data and outputs for multiple monitors.
- #5 There are many types of graphics cards available. Basic graphics cards, called "graphic controllers" are built in to the motherboard and serve basic display functions while offering few extras. Power users often disable these and install their own. These powerful (and sometimes expensive) graphics cards often include GPUs (graphics processing units) to perform complex geometric calculations, large amounts of video memory to store temporary data and outputs for multiple monitors.
- #6 A graphics card GPU calculates the position and color of each onscreen pixel, creates images based on this data, stores them in the high-speed video memory, then sends it to the RAMDAC (digital to analog converter) to output to the monitor. Modern gaming cards include advanced features such as full screen anti-aliasing (FSAA), which smoothes the edges of onscreen images, and anisotropic filtering (AF), which makes distant images look more detailed. Powerful graphics cards use a lot of power and produce equal amounts of heat. Therefore, large heat sinks and cooling fans are often included with them to prevent heat damage. Often, a graphics card requires more power than the motherboard can supply, so it uses a direct connection to the power supply. High-performance cards are sometimes an annoyance to gamers because of the large amounts of power and heat dissipation they require.
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