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.

) 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

* Graphics cards manufacturers use tech demos to showcase the performance of their cards even before there are any games that can deliver that performance or before the product is ready to be used outside of the development labs.

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.

One can design hardware in a VHDL IDE ( for FPGA implementation such as Xilinx ISE, Altera Quartus, Synopsys Synplify or Mentor Graphics HDL Designer ) to produce the RTL schematic of the desired circuit.

gnuplot can produce output directly on screen, or in many formats of graphics files, including Portable Network Graphics ( PNG ), Encapsulated PostScript ( EPS ), Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ), JPEG and many others.

Details can be found in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article " Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution " ( 912919 ).

* Graphics contains two colored squares that can be manipulated by your program.

An example of forward compatibility is the Portable Network Graphics ( PNG ) format, which divides data into " chunks ", and indicates whether these are " critical " or " ancillary ", where ancillary chunks can be ignored by programs that do not understand them.

In the case of dedicated hardware ( like a Graphics Processing Unit ) the prefetch can take advantage of the spatial coherence usually found in the texture mapping process.

* Graphics stored in ' off-screen ' VRAM can quickly be moved around in VRAM using the VGA latches

Graphics can be functional or artistic.

The GPUs of the most powerful class typically interface with the motherboard by means of an expansion slot such as PCI Express ( PCIe ) or Accelerated Graphics Port ( AGP ) and can usually be replaced or upgraded with relative ease, assuming the motherboard is capable of supporting the upgrade.

26 episodes of a Lenore Animation were created for Sony's website ScreenBlast, these are no longer available on Screenblast, but can now be seen on Dirge's site Spooky Land Roman Dirge wrote for his friend, and fellow Slave Labor Graphics artist Jhonen Vasquez's Invader ZIM, and on the back of the second Invader ZIM DVD it says " Made with 100 % more Dirge " with a picture of him on it, Invader Zim style.

Graphics processors can speed up password cracking by a factor of 50 to 100 over general purpose computers.

CD + G ( also known as CD + Graphics ) is an extension of the compact disc standard that can present low-resolution graphics alongside the audio data on the disc when played on a compatible device.

In addition, because RIVA 128 can render at resolutions higher than 640x480, the card can offer quality superior to that of Voodoo Graphics, as shown in the above Quake II screenshot.

There also options to study Home Economics, Technical Graphics, Art, Music ( each student studies one of these ) and German, which can be chosen instead of French.

: Graphics: 96 ( 0-95 ) × 64 ( 0-63 ) pixels, monochrome ( software grayscale can be used )

Hypertext links in Scalable Vector Graphics can currently be defined as simple XLinks.

Graphics can turn volumes of text and statistics into visual information for executives.

For example, a tweak mode can be set even in the original IBM Color Graphics Adapter ( CGA ) to give an extra, non-standard 160 × 100 pixels, 16-color graphic mode.

Graphics deliver realistic 3-D rendered isometric terrain and details include seasons, climatic zones and weather conditions which can affect game play.

As a component of the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Photo-Paint can exchange data with other programs in the suite, including Corel CONNECT ( Version X5 ), which enables users to share files between different computer software and drives on the user's computer.

Scalable Vector Graphics is a markup language for graphics proposed by the W3C that can support rich graphics for web and mobile applications.