Video card
![Classical desktop computer architecture with a distinct graphics card over PCI Express. Typical bandwidths for given memory technologies, missing are the memory latency. Zero-copy between GPU and CPU is not possible, since both have their distinct physical memories. Data must be copied from one to the other to be shared.](/Images/godic/202501/09/Desktop_computer_bus_bandwidths.svg0330.png")
![Integrated graphics with partitioned main memory: a part of the system memory is allocated to the GPU exclusively. Zero-copy is not possible, data has to be copied, over the system memory bus, from one partition to the other.](/Images/godic/202501/09/Integrated_graphics_with_distinct_memory_allocation.svg0330.png")
![Integrated graphics with unified main memory, to be found AMD](/Images/godic/202501/09/HSA-enabled_integrated_graphics.svg0330.png")
![A Radeon HD 7970 with the cooler removed, showing the major components of the card.](/Images/godic/202501/09/SAPPHIRE_Radeon_HD_79700330.jpg")
A video card (also called a video adapter, display card, graphics card, graphics board, display adapter, graphics adapter or frame buffer) is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display (such as a computer monitor). Frequently, these are advertised as discrete or dedicated graphics cards, emphasizing the distinction between these and integrated graphics. Within the industry, video cards are sometimes called graphics add-in-boards, abbreviated as AIBs, with the word "graphics" usually omitted.