Today’s video cards are so powerful that many applications now use the GPU to get through photo and video processing and effects faster, which also frees up the CPU to process other things at the same time. In a desktop computer, the GPU and VRAM are often on a completely separate card that can be easily replaced. This design allows more powerful GPUs to be used, and with more VRAM. On high-end computers the CPU and GPU are separate chipsets, each with their own memory this is called discrete graphics or dedicated graphics. Any memory needed for graphics is taken from the main system RAM ( see details about VRAM amounts on Macs with integrated video). On low-end computers, the GPU is often on the same chipset as the CPU this is called integrated graphics or integrated video. The primary mission of the video card is to drive your displays and make graphics show up faster on those displays. In the same way that a computer has a CPU (central processing unit) that interacts with RAM (random-access memory), a video card has a GPU (graphics processing unit) that works with VRAM (video random-access memory).
I have updated this article since it was first written.
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