Whether you’re gaming, watching DVDs or editing video on your Qube desktop, the quality of the graphics you experience is only as good as your video card. Along with the display, the video card affects the number of colors available, contrast, resolution and overall performance

Graphics Solution Types

Integrated video cards
are built-in to the system motherboard and use the system’s processor (CPU) and memory to create graphics. They’re fine for applications such as word processing and email and for the Internet, but not great for gaming or other graphic-intensive applications.

While integrated video cards can process some complex graphics such as 3D images, they have to share the CPU and memory with other programs. If the CPU and memory are overloaded or busy processing other information, it can really slow down the graphics.

Discrete video cards
turn up the performance compared to integrated video cards. They are separate, or discrete, from the motherboard and have their own processor, a specialized graphics processing unit, or GPU. They don’t have to share the CPU with other programs.

Discrete video cards include memory of their own, measured in megabytes (MB). Graphics memory is used by the GPU to accelerate the graphics on your monitor and make gaming, movies and other entertainment intensely realistic. In general, the more memory the graphics card has the better.

Dual video cards
double the memory and graphics resources available to help your Qube system process and display immense files at top speeds.

Why is graphics memory important?
Graphics memory is used by the GPU to accelerate how quickly information is displayed on your notebook screen or external monitor and to improve the overall visual quality of games, movies and other entertainment activities.