The graphics cards business is essentially comprised of discrete graphics cards and integrated graphics cards.
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Professional graphics cards are purchased separately by professionals to get 3D graphics performance that is superior to the graphics cards that come installed in their PCs.
While discrete graphics cards high performance appeals to gamers and professionals who require high-end computing, integrated graphics is aimed to support minimal graphics requirements of a PC.
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What's more, the automatic graphics switching in MSI's GPU Boost technology kicks them over to discrete graphics card mode to kick graphics processing up a notch or two.
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The idea is to couple chips like the graphics processors responsible for snappy graphics in home computers and game consoles with central processors like the Intel chips powering your home computer.
But its graphics components are specially made graphics chips from Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ), not the usual graphics chips you'll find in a PC.
While it would be nice to see a better diagramming input solution for the average business graphics user, add-on graphics tablets, such as those from Wacom, make the most sense for professionals.
Nvidia faces challenges in the graphics market from players like Intel and AMD , which are increasingly providing integrated graphics chips to PC makers that reduce the need for separate (discrete) graphics cards.
Professional Graphics Cards are graphics cards purchased separately by professionals to get superior, faster 3D graphics performance from their PCs than they are able to get with the graphics cards that come installed with a computer.
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Along with a microprocessor that serves as a PC's core calculating engine, Spider includes graphics technology for serving up the advanced graphics beloved by gamers and a chipset that ties those elements together and connects them to other resources such as the main memory.
Intel has dominated integrated graphics business, which accounts for majority of graphics card shipments.
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Both companies, however, are talking up technologies that will tap into graphics processors to speed up not just whizzy graphics but a bigger slice of everyday computing chores.
By contrast an Nvidia graphics processing unit, or GPU, renders graphics by simultaneously hashing out the same problem for multiple pixels: textures, lighting and smooth rendering of shapes flying across the screen.
The dedicated graphics provides the user with full access to the graphics card in a virtualized environment.
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This built-in system eliminates the need for an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) slot and a separate graphics card.
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However, this also means that you cannot upgrade the graphics system in the future by installing a new graphics card.
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As for graphics performance, the Vectra uses a Matrox G200 graphics chip with 8MB of memory integrated on the motherboard.
The same processor chip is there along with a slightly less impressive graphics processor, this one an Nvidia GeForce4 420 Go graphics chip.
Graphics power is provided by an ATI Rage 128 Pro graphics card with 16MB of video RAM -- the same accelerator that's found in the latest Power Mac G4.
Depending on the model, the laptops will come with an Intel GM965 or PM965 chipset, along with X3100 integrated graphics -- though it's likely a dedicated graphics choice will be offered as well.
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Professional graphics cards are used primarily by business professionals that need powerful graphics for the purposes of demonstrating designs and complex simulations.
The company got a jump on graphics chip rivals over the summer with a new series of graphics processors that have won strong reviews and grabbed market share from Nvidia, one of the chip industry's toughest competitors.
It intends to beef up the graphics abilities of its processors and will one day start selling specialised graphics chips.
The impact to the rest of the market will be to raise the bar on graphics as a whole, which can only benefit high-end graphics makers like NVIDIA and AMD.
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