Graphics cards are designed primarily for 2D artwork production, workstation use, and later, gaming.

Matrox is an umbrella name for two legal entities: first, Matrox Graphics Inc., the entity most recognized by the public which has been making graphics cards for over 30 years ; second, Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd., a company comprising two divisions: Imaging — making frame grabbers — and Digital Video Solutions — making video-editing products for professional markets.

Graphics cards cannot render texture maps beyond a threshold that depends on their hardware, possibly the amount of available RAM or the amount of graphics memory available.

Graphics cards can be overclocked.

) and games like Eidos ' Tomb Raider, the killer application for Voodoo Graphics was the MiniGL driver developed specifically to allow hardware acceleration of the game Quake, by id Software, on 3dfx cards.

I / O cards are available such as Serial communication controllers, SCSI controllers, Graphics controllers and Firewire controllers.

, dedicated Graphics Processing Units ( GPUs ) in the form of graphics cards are commonplace.

In 1990-1991, this chip became the basis of the Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture (" TIGA ") Windows accelerator cards.

IGPs like the Intel's HD Graphics 3000 and AMD's Fusion IGPs have improved performance that may match cheap dedicated graphic cards, but still lag behind the more expensive dedicated graphics cards.

The Multi-Color Graphics Array was a video subsystem built into the motherboard of the IBM PS / 2 Model 30, introduced on April 2, 1987, and Model 25, introduced later on August 11 ; no standalone MCGA cards were ever made.

Graphics cards that support 16 bits per pixel provide 65536 distinct colors, or 5 – 6 bits per channel.

* Graphics cards have a 128-bit or 256-bit data bus to memory.

At the time, RIVA 128 was one of the first combination 2D / 3D cards that could rival Voodoo Graphics.

Hercules manufactured cards such as the Graphics Station and Chrome lines which were marketed primarily toward users of Microsoft Windows.

Graphics accelerator cards brought a new level of realism to the graphics and physics of sim racing games.

* Mesa Gallium3D from VMware / Tungsten Graphics provides an OpenVG implementations for cards with Gallium drivers ( Gallium drivers for nVidia, AMD / ATI, and VMware are available )

* PCI Express Graphics, a port for computer graphics cards

The M2 was reportedly several times ( 2-3 ) more powerful than the Nintendo 64 in terms of polygon graphics capabilities and slightly more powerful than the 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics ( Voodoo1 ) accelerator chipset for PC cards.

The Accelerated Graphics Port or AGP, which was the most widespread standard for connecting graphics cards to PC motherboards from 1997 until 2005, may be considered to be somewhere in-between a PDS and a bus.

In a strict sense, this character set was not conceived as a code page — it was simply the graphical glyph repertoire available in the 9 by 14 pixels-per-character font of the IBM Monochrome Display Adapter ( MDA ) and the 8 by 8 pixels-per-character font of the Color Graphics Adapter ( CGA ) cards used with the original IBM PC.

Alienware designed a PCIe adapter to house full size Dedicated Graphics cards, offering two Nvidia models: GT 545 ( i3 and i5 models ) and GTX 555 ( i7 models ).

* Graphics pipelines, found in most graphics cards, which consist of multiple arithmetic units, or complete CPUs, that implement the various stages of common rendering operations ( perspective projection, window clipping, color and light calculation, rendering, etc.

Other third-party PostScript solutions used by print and MFP manufacturers include Jaws and the Harlequin RIP, both by Global Graphics.

The system made its debut at the NAB conference in 1993, in the booths of the three primary sub-system manufacturers, Avid, Silicon Graphics and Sony.

VGA was officially followed by IBM's Extended Graphics Array ( XGA ) standard, but it was effectively superseded by numerous slightly different extensions to VGA made by clone manufacturers that came to be known collectively as Super VGA.

At one time there were many manufacturers of graphics accelerators, including: 3dfx ; ATI ; Hercules ; Trident ; Nvidia ; Radius ; S3 Graphics ; SiS and Silicon Graphics.

Some manufacturers bundled a PC version of Atari Games ' racing game San Francisco Rush, the arcade version of which used a Voodoo Graphics chipset.

It went out of business in 1986, largely due to competition from other workstation manufacturers such as Sun Microsystems, Apollo Computer and Silicon Graphics.

In January 2010, Global Graphics completed a survey with 400 Chief Information Officers from organisations with over 1000 employees across the US and the UK that showed three quarters ( 76 per cent ) of large organisations use free software across the enterprise with over half ( 51 per cent ) planning to deploy more free software in 2010.

SGI continued to use the " Silicon Graphics " name for its workstation product line, and later re-adopted the cube logo for some workstation models.

Typically the authors of screensavers use the C or C ++ programming languages, along with Graphics Device Interface ( GDI ), DirectX, or OpenGL, to craft their final products.

In the mid-1980s, Silicon Graphics began to use the MIPS CPU as the foundation of their newest workstations, replacing the Motorola 68000.

They introduced the commercial version of PseudoStation in 1985, which allowed users of Intergraph's VAX systems to use low-cost graphics terminals to view and modify the designs on their Intergraph IGDS ( Interactive Graphics Design System ) installations.

* ReTargetable Graphics, term for use of 3rd party video hardware directly by the AmigaOS

* RCP ( chip ), a co-processor chip designed by Silicon Graphics for use in the Nintendo 64 gaming system

Worldwide, he is perhaps better known for his irreverent designs for surfwear company Mambo Graphics many of which were later adapted for use in a segment of the Sydney 2000 Olympics closing ceremony.

Koala Technologies offered more software than the bundled KoalaPainter and Graphics Exhibitor to use with the pad.

HBASIC is also the name for a BASIC interpreter created specifically for use with the Hercules Graphics Card.

Pixar Animation Studios, the computer graphics and animation company ( then the Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Project, now owned by Walt Disney Pictures ), used most of the first fifty Project Athena systems before they went into general use rendering The Adventures of André and Wally B.

Initially, these printers were limited to glossy papers, but the IRIS Graphics printer allowed the use of a variety of papers that included traditional and non-traditional media.

The strand also acted as an umbrella brand for the programming which it linked to, by use of Big Breakfast style break-bumpers and Digital On-Screen Graphics.

* Best use of Graphics and Sound in a Video Game-( awarded by Billboard Magazine ).

Unofficial use of the seal is regulated by the White House Graphics and Calligraphy Office and monitored by the office of the White House Counsel.

Dinosaur combines the use of live-action backgrounds with computer animation of prehistoric creatures, notably the titular dinosaurs, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation's Computer Graphics Unit that was later merged with Dream Quest Images to create Disney's The Secret Lab department.

A recent development is the use of data-parallel algorithms on Graphics Processing Units GPUs for ABM simulation.

With the release of the Output Delivery System ( ODS ) for Statistical Graphics extension in SAS 7, and with the use of the SAS Graph component the graphics have improved significantly.

A keynote by Heiner Benking proposed to use the French word Infographique as a basis for Information Graphics or Infographics, to differentiate photographic imagery versus " constructed and designed " computer graphics, with visualzing art forms, highlighting and explaining selected data, automatically generated or visualized by artists, see the " Visualizer " Kurt Hanks.

It also received a standardized 500GB 7200rpm hard drive as well as the standard-for-M11x-line dual-GPU setup combining NVIDIA's discrete GeForce GT 540M for higher-end gaming and Intel's integrated HD Graphics 3000 for older gaming and application use, by the end of 2011 a second revision of the motherboard design used on the R3 series was made available on a limited amount of laptops, this second version used the more powerful Nvidia GF108 chipset, the GTX 550M with 1GB video memory.

The R4 is the first to use Quad Channel Memory and has Dedicated Graphics Card options from AMD's HD 6000 series and HD 7000 series line as well as Nvidia's GTX 500 series line.

The R4 is the first to use Quad Channel Memory and has Dedicated Graphics Card options from AMD's HD 6000 series and HD 7000 series line as well as Nvidia's GTX 500 series line.

The rebirth of Kustom Kulture has seen the use of the term “ Kustom Graphics ” to describe the style of artwork associated with the subculture when applied to posters, flyers, t-shirts and logos.