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Thread #156229   Message #3705418
Posted By: GUEST,DaveRo
30-Apr-15 - 06:50 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Processor explanation Please....
Subject: RE: Tech: Processor explanation Please....
There are two (main) types of memory - Random Access Memory (RAM) which is used for most things and video or graphics memory. On budget machines the latter may be part of the former - but in that case it's limited. Or it can be on a dedicated video 'card' (which might not be a separate plug-in card at all, it might be on the computer's main board or motherboard). A gaming machine would normally need a separate video card to render 3D graphics quickly enough.

The video card will have a dedicated processor, too - the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which is different from the CPU which was the original subject of this thread.