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2. Graphics card - Wikipedia

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   A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor. Graphics cards are sometimes called discrete or dedicated graphics cards ...

3. List of computer display standards - Wikipedia

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   A widely used de facto standard, introduced with XGA-2 and other early "multiscan" graphics cards and monitors, with an unusual aspect ratio of 5:4 (1.25:1) instead of the more common 4:3 (1. 3:1), meaning that even 4:3 pictures and video will appear letterboxed on the narrower 5:4 screens. This is generally the native resolution—with ...

4. Enhanced Graphics Adapter - Wikipedia

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   The Enhanced Graphics Adapter ( EGA) is an IBM PC graphics adapter [ 2][ 3] and de facto computer display standard from 1984 that superseded the CGA standard introduced with the original IBM PC, and was itself superseded by the VGA standard in 1987. In addition to the original EGA card manufactured by IBM, many compatible third-party cards were ...

5. Video Graphics Array - Wikipedia

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   Video Graphics Array ( VGA) is a video display controller and accompanying de facto graphics standard, first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, [ 1][ 2][ 3] which became ubiquitous in the IBM PC compatible industry within three years. [ 4] The term can now refer to the computer display standard, the 15-pin D-subminiature ...

6. Graphics processing unit - Wikipedia

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   Components of a GPU. A graphics processing unit ( GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.

7. Hercules Graphics Card - Wikipedia

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   The Hercules Graphics Card ( HGC) is a computer graphics controller formerly made by Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. that combines IBM 's text-only MDA display standard with a bitmapped graphics mode, also offering a parallel printer port. [1] [2] This allows the HGC to offer both high-quality text and graphics from a single card.