Note that ATI is now called AMD, having been purchased by AMD, which means that AMD and NVIDIA are now the two major manufacturers of graphics chips.Įvery graphics card or graphics chip integrated on a desktop or laptop PC's motherboard installs a display control panel when its device drivers are installed that adds to the display options provided by Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Most users only need to know the make/model, shown under Name (to be able to download its latest device drivers from the manufacturer's website), the Bus Interface (PCI, AGP, PCI Express) and the Memory Size (1024MB = 1GB in this example). ![]() Here is an example of the graphics-card information that it provides for an ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series PCI Express (PCI-E) graphics card: GPU-Z - "GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.". If you want to know all about the graphics card/chip that is being used by your desktop or laptop PC, this free utility will meet all of the needs of most home users: ![]() Monitors, because it is possible to connect many monitors to a desktop PC via multiple graphics cards. The video/graphics cards (also known as graphics accelerator cards) used in desktop PCs and laptop/notebook PCs contain the electronics that deliver the picture/display to the computer's monitor or monitors.
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