Business owners that need to perform graphics-intensive tasks such as video editing or 3D modeling with their computers often buy high-end PCs with discrete video cards that have built-in, dedicated ...

Like computers, graphics cards use RAM to store active data -- and like PCs, in many cases, the more RAM available to a card, the better the card will perform. Video memory contains data about each ...

Original text: Video card memory hasn’t fundamentally changed for over a decade. While manufacturers have leapt to quicker, newer hardware, the basic construction and layout of memory has stayed the ...

Between your CPU and a video card processor, it is the VRAM that acts as a buffer, ensuring the uninterrupted operation of games or other graphics-intensive applications. Essentially, it lies at the ...

This article is the fourth in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part four, click here. Besides the processor, a few other components will plug into the ...