The graphics are generated by a custom graphics chip called MARIA which is very different from other second and third generation consoles, and made it more difficult for game programmers to make the transition.

Following the debate over Custer's Revenge, an Atari 2600 VCS title with adult themes, Atari had concerns over similar adult titles finding their way onto the 7800 and displaying adult graphics on the significantly improved graphics of the MARIA chip.

When operating in “ 2600 ” mode to play Atari 2600 titles, the 7800 uses a Television Interface Adapter ( TIA ) chip to generate graphics and sound.

The ColecoVision contains the same CPU and graphics chip as the MSX and Sega SG-1000 / SC-3000 but the MSX contains a different sound chip, the AY-3-8910.

ColecoVision shares the same CPU and a sound chip with Sega Master System, also a similar but inferior graphics chip.

The 1MB machine ( 128k of ROM, 128k of video RAM, 768k of system RAM ) promised graphics with 256 colours on-screen simultaneously, could handle 3 million pixels per second, output 8 channel stereo and had a blitter chip that allowed vertical and horizontal hardware scrolling.

The VLSI Program, practically unknown today, led to a huge number of advances in chip design, fabrication, and even computer graphics.

Transformed coordinates, attribute gradients, etc., need never leave the graphics chip ; only the visible pixels and depth values are stored.

* Hollywood ( graphics chip ) graphics chip

This graphics chip usually has a small quantity of embedded memory and takes some of the system's main RAM, reducing the total RAM available.

Almost all of these motherboards allow the disabling of the integrated graphics chip in BIOS, and have an AGP, PCI, or PCI Express slot for adding a higher-performance graphics card in place of the integrated graphics.

For extra graphics capabilities, Intel recommends third-party chips like the NVIDIA GoForce chip family.

Intel made a successful major push into the motherboard and chipset markets — becoming the largest motherboard manufacturer in the world and, at one stage, almost the only chipset manufacturer — but badly fumbled its attempt to move into the graphics chip market, and ( from 1991 ) faced sharp competition in its core CPU territory from AMD, Cyrix, VIA and Transmeta.

Nutting had been contracted by Midway, the videogame division of Bally, to create a standardized graphics driver chip.

Zgrass's coordinate system was based on that of the original graphics chip that Nutting had designed, based on a 320 × 202 grid.

Nutting had been contracted by Midway, the video game division of Bally, to create a standardized graphics driver chip.

Another approach, used by modern hardware graphics adapters with accelerated geometry, can convert exactly all Bézier and conic curves ( or surfaces ) into NURBS, that can be rendered incrementally without first splitting the curve recursively to reach the necessary flatness condition.

As browsers have gained support for native hardware accelerated graphics in the form of Canvas and WebGL, as well as Just in Time compiled JavaScript, the speed difference has become less noticeable.

* WebGL: JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES 2. 0 for web applications with hardware accelerated 3D graphics

In late 1996, id Software released VQuake, a port of the Quake engine to support hardware accelerated rendering on graphics cards using Rendition Vérité chipset.

Since version 4. 0, XFree86 has supported certain accelerated 3D graphics cards via the GLX and DRI extensions.

They are two add-on libraries that use OpenGL for accelerated graphics routines and use Allegro for all other gaming needs.

* Direct3D for access to 3D hardware accelerated graphics.

Most video cards offer various functions such as accelerated rendering of 3D scenes and 2D graphics, MPEG-2 / MPEG-4 decoding, TV output, or the ability to connect multiple monitors ( multi-monitor ).

* Added support for hardware accelerated graphics functions ( copy, fill, blittering, etc.

Another serious limitation that affects almost all stacking window managers is that they are often severely limited in the degree to which the interface can be accelerated by a graphics processing unit ( GPU ), and very little can be done about this.

For one, since we know where the foreground window is, when the screen raster reaches the graphics hardware, the area occupied by the foreground window can be easily replaced with an accelerated texture.

* Flash Player 11: The major addition in this version are advanced ( graphics accelerated ) 3D capabilities.

If client and server are running on the same computer and an accelerated 3D graphics card using a suitable driver is available, the former two components can be bypassed by DRI.

* A new graphics processing API, Core Image, leveraging the power of the available accelerated graphics cards.

The EG features an accelerated 2D graphics engine that is capable of:

Many of the reviewers disliked the poor graphics performance on even the fastest, graphically accelerated PCs available upon the game's release.

On May 1, 2009 Zack Rusin from Tungsten Graphics added OpenVG state tracker to Mesa 3D, which enables SVG vector graphics to be hardware accelerated by any Gallium3D-based driver.

EVA products enabled 130 more lines of graphics ( 640x480 ) than IBM EGA, as well as advanced features like hardware accelerated windowing, panning, and zooming.

An input / output memory management unit ( IOMMU ) enables guest virtual machines to directly use peripheral devices, such as Ethernet, accelerated graphics cards, and hard-drive controllers, through DMA and interrupt remapping.

; MAGMA: Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multicore Architectures ( MAGMA ) project develops a dense linear algebra library similar to LAPACK but for heterogeneous and hybrid architectures including multicore systems accelerated with GPGPU graphics cards.

id Tech 2 ( Quake II, 1997 ) was one of the first games to take advantage of hardware accelerated graphics ( id Software later reworked Quake to add OpenGL support to the game ).

It has full hardware accelerated graphics support through OpenGL, and also a software renderer.

Because it is a simple framebuffer, the G364 does not include any accelerated graphics functions.

DirectDraw is used to render graphics in applications where top performance is important.

A programmer could use DirectDraw to draw 3D graphics, but the rendering would be slow compared to an API such as Direct3D which does support 3D hardware acceleration.

That is, it contains many commands for 3D rendering ; however, since version 8, Direct3D has superseded the old DirectDraw framework and also taken responsibility for the rendering of 2D graphics.

Additional application programming interfaces ( APIs ) arrived for a variety of tasks, such as Microsoft's WinG graphics library for Windows 3. x, and their later DirectDraw interface for hardware acceleration of 2D games within Windows 95 and later.