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what does a graphic card do other than games?

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January 13, 2014 9:00:58 AM

what does a graphic card do other than enhance gaming quality? what else are graphic cards good for ?

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January 13, 2014 9:05:39 AM

graphic card or GPU (graphic PROCCESING unit) ... is a proccesor, similar to cpu... the difference is in the way they work... they process information differenly... basicaly a gpu is used in video editing or when a lot of data needs to be processed quicky...

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January 13, 2014 9:05:59 AM

Watch high quality Blu-Ray (or 3D Material)
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January 13, 2014 9:06:50 AM

also graphic cards put your image on the screen.. so if you want to use high definition monitors like ultra HD ... or multiple monitors, you need video cards to be good enough to do it
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January 13, 2014 9:07:15 AM

Well, mostly games.
There are also workstation graphics cards like the AMD FirePro's and NVIDIA Quadro's, but they're expensive as hell.
These aren't good for games, but are used for rendering of 3D models.
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January 13, 2014 9:08:34 AM

buzzhead0 said:
what does a graphic card do other than enhance gaming quality? what else are graphic cards good for ?


For the average user? Not much. It increases graphics performance everywhere on your computer but that's (practically) it.

However, you can use the power of a GPU for Bitcoin/Litecoin mining and then there's always Nvidia's CUDA technology.

This is definitely not an exhaustive list of things you can use your GPU for, it's a generalization.
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January 13, 2014 9:08:40 AM

They can also increase the speed of video encoding/decoding if you are converting videos or simply video editing.
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January 13, 2014 9:13:00 AM

Graphics cards are very helpful in things other than gaming. They help take load off of your cpu by rendering images and other things in your computer so the cpu no longer has to. While they are essential for game editing, and video or image editing will also be a million times better with a graphics card. Depending on your uses for the computer you may or may not want/need a graphics card. A professional photographer or video editor is going to need a high quality graphics card whereas
the everyday office person who uses Microsoft Office will not see a huge difference in everyday tasks. A really hardcore gamer will go for a 780 TI which will cost $1000 a piece whereas that is twice as much as an everyday persons whole computer. So if you have a special task that you are using your computer for you can tell me and I can recommend a few graphics cards that will help you out.
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