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41 lines
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<div style="text-align: center; display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;">
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<div> <!-- Left pane -->
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<!-- Title -->
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## Hardware
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- Graphics card(s)
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- 3D accelerator
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- Video RAM
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- VBIOS
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- Display controller(s)
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- Monitor(s)
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- EDID
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</div>
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</div>
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Note:
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Starting with: Your hardware.
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In the context of graphics, hardware usually is referring to your graphics card, or GPU for short. This can be something like
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an "NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER", "AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT", or whatever integrated solution your device has.
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GPUs are pretty complicated beasts, but for today we'll only talk about them on a very high level.
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GPUs tend to consist of some sort of 3D accelerator. This is essentially just a massive pool of highly specialized CPU cores.
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They also have Video RAM for storing things like game textures, geometry, and the ultimate output that is sent to the screen.
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There's also the VBIOS, which is essentially the GPU's firmware.
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However, there are a few more pieces to the puzzle. There are also display controllers, which provide the video outputs. These
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are usually found on the GPU itself, but not always.
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There's also of course your monitors, which are not only the ultimate destination, but are also important because they provide information
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about themselves using a protocol called EDID, or Extended Display Identification Data.
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[comment]: # (!!!) <!--------------------------------------------------------->
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