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Amiga computers, due to their special design attention to graphics performance, created in the 1980s a vast market of framebuffer based graphics cards.

Noteworthy to mention was the graphics card in Amiga A2500 Unix, which was in 1991 the first computer to implement an X11 server program as a server for hosting graphical environments and the Open Look GUI graphical interface in high resolution ( 1024x1024 or 1024x768 at 256 colors ).

The graphics card for A2500 Unix was called the A2410 ( Lowell TIGA Graphics Card ) and was an 8-bit graphics board based on the Texas Instruments TMS34010 clocked at 50 MHz.

It was a complete intelligent graphics coprocessor.

The A2410 graphics card for Amiga was co-developed with Lowell University.

Other noteworthy Amiga framebuffer based cards were: the Impact Vision IV24 graphics card from GVP, an interesting integrated video suite, capable of mixing 24-bit framebuffer, with Genlock, Chromakey, TV signal pass-thru and TV in a window capabilities ; the DCTV a graphics card and video capture system ; the Firecracker 32-bit graphics card ; the Harlequin card, the Colorburst ; the HAM-E external framebuffer.

The Graffiti external graphics card is still available on the market.