What is a graphics controller?
The graphics controller, or graphics card, is the part of your laptop that handles everything that shows up on your screen. Graphics controllers can be integrated fully into your laptop’s motherboard and share video memory with your system’s onboard RAM. This means that if you have 512 MB of memory for you laptop and your graphics controller shares 128 MB of the system memory, at peak usage you would have 384 MB of memory free for other programs. Other graphics controllers come with there own onboard video memory separate from the laptop’s system memory. This means your graphics controller doesn’t need to pull from system memory.
Related Questions
- I have another non-Matrox graphics card in the system along with one of the Matrox display controller boards for medical imaging. What is the best way to configure the displays and boards?
- I removed my previous graphics card and I am about to install a new Matrox display controller board. What is the correct procedure?
- graphics controller upgradable?
