graphics card

noun

plural graphics cards

Examples of graphics card in a Sentence

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The figure is cheeky in the same way that MSI's ultra-high-end GeForce RTX 5950 Lightning-Z graphics card, at $5,950, is only semi-serious, given that regular RTX 5950 cards cost less than half that. Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 Mar. 2026 Intel is now assembling its own graphics card, Tan said at a Cisco event earlier this month. Jordan Novet, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026 Rave Racer never got a home conversion, although one was once announced—not for PlayStation, but surprisingly, PCs that used NEC and VideoLogic’s PowerVR graphics card that competed with 3dfx’s Voodoo and Nvidia’s Riva 128 in the mid-to-late ’90s. Adam Ismail, The Drive, 5 Feb. 2026 The exception is graphics performance, where high-end graphics cards made by Nvidia and AMD tend to be extremely punchy, based on a combination of our internal data as well as public benchmarks. Keumars Afifi-Sabet, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026

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First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of graphics card was in 1981

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“Graphics card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/graphics%20card. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.

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