Your graphics card, also known as a video card or display adapter, is the primary means of display in the computer system. Its primary function is to generate and output images to a display.
A video card usually refers to an expansion card that is plugged into the motherboard through a PCI, AGP, or PCI-E slot. It can however, also apply to a built-in display adapter on the motherboard.
Video Cards Overview
If you are acomputer gamer or work a lot with computer animation or video editing, chances are pretty good that you have a video card added into your system.
Trying to find the best video cards and to keep up with the video card market is almost a full time job. New cards and technologies are released multiple times throughout the year.
While video card names are not quite as difficult to decipher as CPU names, they can still be confusing sometimes.
We’ll get a general overview of video cards, look at the naming convention, and talk a bit about how the card manufacturers market their cards. Additionally, we'll find out how to download card drivers (for example NVIDIA drivers and/or NVIDIA driver updates).
We'll also take a look here at the history of video cards, a little bit about the components that make up a card, and how they work.
Video Card Terminology
When you want to get the best out of your video card, you may need to tweak some settings within your games and applications.
But where to start? Anti-aliasing, high dynamic range rendering, texture mapping - it can all be quite confusing.
We’ll take a look here at the various video terms, what they mean, and how they affect your graphics settings and speed.
We'll also go over what settings to change to get the most out of your gaming experience.
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