Graphics accelerator card

A graphics accelerator card is a PCI (peripheral component interconnect), AGP (accelerated graphics port), or PCI-e (PCI Express) expansion card that improves graphics calculation and video performance. It incorporates its own GPU (graphics processing unit) memory and may contain hundreds or thousands of GPU cores. If the GPU contains specialized hardware for accelerating 3-D graphics, it may also be called a 3-D accelerator.

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3-D, Graphics controller, Hardware acceleration, Video acceleration, Video card terms