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Windows Vista Graphics Card
What's a Windows Vista Graphics Card? As a result of the (optional) Aero Glass interface of Windows Vista, a lot of prominent Video Card companies are starting to release new "Vista Ready" Graphics cards that will be able to handle Vista.First of all for those who don't know what a graphics card is, Wikipedia says the following:
A Graphics Processing Unit or GPU (also occasionally called Visual Processing Unit or VPU) is a dedicated graphics rendering device for a personal computer, workstation, or game console. Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating and displaying computer graphics, and their highly parallel structure makes them more effective than typical CPUs for a range of complex algorithms.
A GPU implements a number of graphics primitive operations in a way that makes running them much faster than drawing directly to the screen with the host CPU. The most common operations for early 2D computer graphics include the BitBLT operation (combine two bitmap patterns using a RasterOp), usually in special hardware called a "blitter", and operations for drawing rectangles, triangles, circles, and arcs. Modern GPUs also have support for 3D computer graphics, and typically include digital video-related functions as well.
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Dedicated Graphics Cards
The most powerful class of GPUs typically interface with the motherboard by means of an expansion slot such as PCI Express or Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) and can usually be replaced or upgraded with relative ease, assuming the motherboard is capable of supporting the upgrade. However, a dedicated GPU is not necessarily removable, nor does it necessarily interface with the motherboard in a standard fashion. The term "dedicated" refers to the fact that dedicated graphics cards have RAM that is dedicated to the card's use, not to the fact that most dedicated GPUs are removable. Dedicated GPUs for portable computers are most commonly interfaced through a non-standard and often proprietary slot due to size and weight constraints. Such ports may still be considered AGP or PCI Express, even if they are not physically interchangeable with their counterparts.
Integrated Graphics Solutions
Integrated graphics solutions, or shared graphics solutions are graphics processors that utilize a portion of a computer's system RAM rather than dedicated graphics memory. Such solutions are typically far less expensive to implement in comparison to dedicated graphics solutions, but at a trade-off of being far less capable and are generally considered unfit to play modern games. Modern desktop motherboards normally include an integrated graphics solution and have expansion slots available to add a dedicated graphics card later.
As a GPU is extremely memory intensive, an integrated solution finds itself competing for the already slow system RAM with the CPU as it has no dedicated video memory. System RAM may be 2 GB/s to 8 GB/s, yet most discrete GPUs enjoy 15 GB/s to 40 GB/s of bandwidth.
GPU manufacturers
- NVIDIA Corporation
- ATI Technologies
- 3Dlabs
- Matrox
- XGI Technology
- Intel
- 3dfx (now part of NVIDIA)
- S3 Graphics (now part of VIA Technologies)
- Falanx Microsystems - Mali - now ARM Norway
GPU's (Windows Vista Ready)
Diamond Releases Its First Vista-Ready PCI Video Card
X1300 PCI 256MB Viper Video Card Offers Affordable, High Performance Cinematic 3D Graphics
CHATSWORTH, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 03, 2006 -- Diamond Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com), a leading manufacturer of PC graphics cards, sound cards and communications products, today begins shipping the X1300 PCI 256MB Viper video card. This cinematic 3D graphics card is the first Vista-ready PCI video card from Diamond and the most affordable graphics card to offer high-end features like high-definition (HD) display, using ATI's heralded Avivo display technology.
The X1300 has a PCI bus type, 256MB DDR2 memory, 450MHz clock speed and 250MHz memory speed. It utilizes 90nm technology with two vertex Shader Processors, and supports Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 3.0.
Minimum system requirements for the X1300 PCI card include an Intel? Pentium? 4 or AMD? Athlon? 64 FX, System Memory of 512MB or higher, 420 Watt power supply or higher, 480MB available hard disk space, PCI compliant slot and a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. The card supports Windows XP, Windows XP MCE, Windows 2000, and Windows Vista Areo.
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Windows Vista is here and in order to get the best resolution on your multimedia video files, you need a good Graphics card. Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...
NVidia 9600
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