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Record 1 1998-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
DEF

A video adapter that contains a graphics coprocessor to update the video display much more quickly than the CPU can and free the latter for other tasks.

CONT

Graphics accelerators speed things up by moving work off the processor, but they are often left hungry for data by the slow clock speed and narrow 16-bit data path of the ISA I/O bus.

CONT

The Compaq QVision 1024E EISA card flies past conventional VGA and graphics accelerator ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)
DEF

Dispositif assurant l'accélération du traitement des données, permettant la visualisation des courbes, des images et des dessins.

CONT

Le P86C805 est, en effet, un accélérateur graphique optimisé pour un environnement spécifique (Windows en l'occurrence).

CONT

En effet, depuis quelques mois est apparue la nouvelle génération de circuits vidéo : les accélérateurs graphiques.

Spanish

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