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 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.

However, subsequent models removed this and the " Graphics Synthesizer " GPU, thus removing support for PS2 titles, but still able to play most original PS games.

It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ) to draw the shape.

The Graphics Interchange Format ( GIF ; or ) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

An overlay upgrade from 6. 5. x to the 6. 5. 22 maintenance release is available as a free download, whereas versions 6. 5. 23 and higher require an active Silicon Graphics support contract, despite only running on Silicon Graphics hardware.

As the Tandy 1000 line outlasted the PCjr by many years ( and in fact did not make it to market until shortly before IBM announced the discontinuation of the PCjr ) these graphics and sound standards became known as " Tandy-compatible " or ( for the graphics ) " TGA " ( standing for Tandy Graphics Adapter ) and many software packages of the era listed their support for Tandy standard hardware on the package.

The MS-DOS was a version specialized for and only bootable on the Tandy 1000, as it would announce on the screen of any other PC-compatible one tried to boot with it ; it included a version of BASICA ( Microsoft's Advanced GW-BASIC ) with support for the enhanced CGA graphics modes ( a. k. a. Tandy Graphics or TGA ) and three-voice sound hardware of the Tandy 1000.

Direct3D 11. 1 also features minor updates to the shader language, such as larger constant buffers and optional double-precision instructions, as well as improved blending modes and mandatory support for 16-bit color formats to improve the performance of entry-level GPUs such as Intel HD Graphics.

* Partial Scalable Vector Graphics support

PowerVR produced a similar 3D-only add-on card with capable 3D support, although it was not comparable to Voodoo Graphics in either image quality or performance.

With 32-Bit QuickDraw, OS support for handling this was added, with the " Offscreen Graphics World " or GWorld.

The remastered version of Frontline was included in the PlayStation 3 version of Medal of Honor ( 2010 ) with updated gameplay options and also trophies support and remastered with High Definition Graphics, The player when starting a new game has the option to play with the classic gameplay or modern gameplay similar to Sonic Generations.

Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ) 1. 1 standard.

The main benefit of this, over a split design such as that on Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo², was support for 3D resolutions of 800 × 600 and 960 × 720, higher than Voodoo's 640x480.

In mid-December 2005 support for Scalable Vector Graphics was merged into the standard build and in early January 2006 the source code was migrated from CVS to Subversion.

Graphics hardware support for 3D textures is needed for the second technique.

Enhanced Graphics Adapter ( EGA ) and better adapters natively support text modes beyond 80 × 25 character cells: 80 × 43 ( EGA ), 80 × 50 ( Video Graphics Array, VGA ), 132 × 50 and 132 × 60 ( VESA compatible Super VGA ), etc., increasing the simulated graphic resolution available, doubled again through the half block characters.

Version 5. 08 and later support the GD Graphics Library.

With Nintendo's support, DigiPen Applied Computer Graphics School accepted its first class of video game programming students in 1994.

On November 5, 2008 in Microsoft ’ s Guidelines for Graphics in Windows 7 document, Microsoft stated that Windows 7 will not offer native support for hybrid graphics systems.

Although the PCW actually had excellent monochrome graphics support for its time and specification, closely comparable to the Hercules Graphics Card for the PC, Mallard BASIC had no graphics support whatsoever.

Hardware acceleration for physics processing is now usually provided by graphics processing units that support more general computation, a concept known as General Purpose processing on Graphics Processing Unit.