What is a graphic card meant for?

[Divyanshu Sah]

Hi
I know we can play high graphics games with a good graphic card. But what all other sorts of ting can we do with it . Cant we do video editing with it. Is it also used in programming?. May you give a complete list of all that.

 

[DjDafiDak]

Any grapichal processing, basically anything graphics related.
Video games
Video making
And well,everything u see on ur screen.
But for stuff such as windows animation and plain watchin vids, u dont need a gpu,you can use ur integrated chipset, which is much weaker

 

[Divyanshu Sah]

my graphics card become very hot and i use it in winters to warm the room as well

Oh really.
I have been using it as heater for many years
Nice joke by the waw

 

[TheCowman]

Your graphics card is in charge of processing binary information sent from the CPU by using geometric calculations to create a 'frame' that is sent to your monitor. The reason the CPU doesn't do this, is because it lacks the ability to carry out these specialist geometric calculations. However, it does a much wider range of things. basically what happens is an instruction from your memory which holds what the frame should be is sent to the CPU, the CPU sort of processes this information into a binary code, which obviously we can't read. Then, this is sent to the GPU, which will create an outline of the picture, rasterise the frame and then add texture/colour w/e. This is sent to the on-board memory (the VRAM) and is finally sent to the monitor. I think that it basically tells the monitor an instruction for what colour each individual pixel should be.

 

[Divyanshu Sah]

Your graphics card is in charge of processing binary information sent from the CPU by using geometric calculations to create a 'frame' that is sent to your monitor. The reason the CPU doesn't do this, is because it lacks the ability to carry out these specialist geometric calculations. However, it does a much wider range of things. basically what happens is an instruction from your memory which holds what the frame should be is sent to the CPU, the CPU sort of processes this information into a binary code, which obviously we can't read. Then, this is sent to the GPU, which will create an outline of the picture, rasterise the frame and then add texture/colour w/e. This is sent to the on-board memory (the VRAM) and is finally sent to the monitor. I think that it basically tells the monitor an instruction for what colour each individual pixel should be.

Nice textbook answer . Where did you copied it from. basically it is a good answers .But my quetion was, what can 'we' do with graphic card . Most of us use it for gaming . I am getiing a new hd 7790 by this week and was looking if i could do anything other than gaming

 

[TheCowman]

I just paraphrased that from some site that I looked at. I just googled "how does a GPU work?" and found a good explanation somewhere. Anyways, the video card can be useful for editing, but it's really the CPU that does most of the work. I guess where the graphics card comes in handy is in previewing your video, where the GPU has to do a little bit of work. I would say it's useful for editing, though definitely.