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Integrated graphics

The term integrated graphics is used to describe graphics processors (the specialized hardware inside your computer that handles complex 3D graphics so the computer's main processor doesn't have to) that are simply chips or small arrays of chips integrated onto the motherboard. This is as opposed to graphics or video cards, which are separate boards that connect to the motherboard through an interface like PCI-E or AGP.

Integrated graphics typically use less power and are less expensive than their "dedicated graphics" cousins, but because there are fewer components and there is less power available to the processor, integrated solutions are not usually as powerful.

Most integrated graphics solutions are part of "chipsets," collections of essential tools all bundled up together on a motherboard and usually sold together by one manufacturer. Intel has long dominated the chipset industry, but NVIDIA (a company known as the leader in producing powerful dedicated graphics cards) recently released its own chipsets, including the now-ubiquitous NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, which provide significantly better graphics performance than Intel's chipsets.

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