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How does a graphic card enhance a computer?

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A graphics card is build specifically to render graphics and carry out the post processing, where as your main CPU is not (although it can do both regular and graphics processing) . The graphics card takes away the heavy load of graphics from the main CPU (and RAM) so it can focus on preforming other tasks which makes them run faster.
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