A beginner's guide to graphics cards and how they help power your computer's images

• A graphics card is an expansion card for your PC that is responsible for rendering images to the display.
• High-end GPUs are used for gaming, ray tracing, graphics production, and even mining cryptocurrency.
• Here's a brief overview of everything you need to know about graphics cards. 

At the birth of the computer era, the IBM PC became the standard computer in large part due to its modular architecture with interchangeable components.