video card

noun

: a circuit board in a computer system designed to generate output for the system's video display screen

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Because CPUs and discrete video cards complete different tasks using their own RAM, these pools of memory are treated separately by the system. Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025 This product is a fairly typical RTX 5080 video card in most ways, but its thermal solution is lavishly decorated with artwork inspired by Doom: The Dark Ages. Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 21 May 2025 Asus, with its first BTF designs, solved for that with the introduction of a handful of BTF Edition video cards, like this TUF Gaming RTX 4070 Ti Super. John Burek, PC Magazine, 20 May 2025 Again, that's in real time on a standard, if high-end, consumer-grade video card. New Atlas, 16 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for video card

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First Known Use

1976, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of video card was in 1976

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“Video card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/video%20card. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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