3. History of Graphics
In 1983 Intel made the iSBX 275 Video Graphics
Controller Multimodule Board for industrial
systems based on the Multibus standard.
Released in 1985, the Commodore Amiga was one of
the first personal computers to come standard with a
GPU.
Nvidia was first to produce a chip capable of
programmable shading, the GeForce 3(code named
NV20).
4. Further,many more graphics cards
were introduced like The Nvidia
GeForce256(also known as NV10) the
ATI Radeon 9700 (also known as
R300), etc which have brought about
a revolutionary change in graphics
today!
5.
6. Types Of Graphics Cards
Integrated Graphic
cards:-
• Built in to the motherboard
• Serve Basic display functions
• Also called On-Board Graphic cards
PCI Graphic cards:-
• Use PCI Slot on motherboard
• Older motherboards have PCI Slots
• A little Out-of-date
7. AGP Graphic cards:-
• Connected with AGP port on motherboard
• Have four speeds 1x,2x,4x and 8x
• Faster than PCI cards
PCI-E Graphic cards:-
• Use PCI-E Slot on motherboard
• Most advance and powerful cards
• PCI-E graphics cards can be accelerated to 16 times
10. American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California.
Manufactures world class GPUs (Graphics Cards) and SOCs (System
on the Chip) for mobile computing like “NVIDIA Tegra Series”.
Graphics Cards
NVIDIA 3D Vision
11. American global technology company based
in Santa Clara, California.
Manufactures world class GPUs (Graphics
Cards) and SOCs (System on the Chip) for
mobile computing like “NVIDIA Tegra Series”.
Graphics Cards
NVIDIA 3D Vision
12. Produced by ADVANCE MICRO DEVICES (AMD).
Manufactures Graphics Cards and RAMs.
Compete Nvidia by producing quality GPUs.
It sells Radeon GPUs to third-party manufacturers, who
build and sell the Radeon-based video cards to the OEM
and retail channels.
Manufacturers of the Radeon cards include
Sapphire
XFX
Asus
Gigabyte
MSI
HIS
15. ATI RAGE PRO
• First card to support agp 2x.
• Integrated floating point set up engine
to generate 1.2 million triangles per
second.
16. NVIDIA NV3
• Designed with Microsoft's
DirectX 5 API in mind.
• 4MB of memory, a 100MHz core
clockspeed, 1.6GB/s of
bandwidth, a 206MHz RAMDAC,
compatible with AGP 2X.
• It was also a 2D/3D combo card
• 3.5 million transistors
19. NVIDIA 3D Vision technology delivers stereoscopic 3D images for
gamers, movie-lovers and photo enthusiasts when configured
with NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA 3D Vision active shutter glasses, and
3D Vision- Ready display.
20. Lets have a look at some latest graphics
cards
A graphics card is the "visual center" of a computer's brain. It reads and interprets functions from the internal software and hardware and outputs images to the computer's display. Today's graphics cards are incredibly powerful and perform a variety of useful functions, especially in the world of computer gaming.
There are many types of graphics cards available. Basic graphics cards, called "graphic controllers" are built in to the motherboard and serve basic display functions while offering few extras. Power users often disable these and install their own. These powerful (and sometimes expensive) graphics cards often include GPUs (graphics processing units) to perform complex geometric calculations, large amounts of video memory to store temporary data and outputs for multiple monitors.
There are many types of graphics cards available. Basic graphics cards, called "graphic controllers" are built in to the motherboard and serve basic display functions while offering few extras. Power users often disable these and install their own. These powerful (and sometimes expensive) graphics cards often include GPUs (graphics processing units) to perform complex geometric calculations, large amounts of video memory to store temporary data and outputs for multiple monitors.
A graphics card GPU calculates the position and color of each onscreen pixel, creates images based on this data, stores them in the high-speed video memory, then sends it to the RAMDAC (digital to analog converter) to output to the monitor. Modern gaming cards include advanced features such as full screen anti-aliasing (FSAA), which smoothes the edges of onscreen images, and anisotropic filtering (AF), which makes distant images look more detailed.
Powerful graphics cards use a lot of power and produce equal amounts of heat. Therefore, large heat sinks and cooling fans are often included with them to prevent heat damage. Often, a graphics card requires more power than the motherboard can supply, so it uses a direct connection to the power supply. High-performance cards are sometimes an annoyance to gamers because of the large amounts of power and heat dissipation they require.
