Introduction A graphic card, usually, referred to as a video card or a graphic accelerator card is an electronic circuit installed on the motherboard inside the central power unit, mostly on Laptops and desktop computers (David and Shoemake 500). The pictures or images seen on the screen of a monitor are made up of many pixels, which a computer uses to create images. To create images, a computer makes use of a graphic card which decides what needs to be done regarding all the pixels. The graphic card, as a translator, extracts binary data from the motherboard to produce a picture (Fehily 28). It is on the graphic card where this translation takes place. A graphic card contains four main components:   * Graphics processor   * Video memory   * RAMDAC (Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analogue Converter   * Driver software Below is a diagram of a graphic card. Fig.1: A diagram of a graphic card. Source: 3DLABS Inc. Ltd The overall performance of a computer depends on the performance of its subsystems. Video cards improve a computers performance by undertaking the largest duty of generating a picture from a model and finally presenting on the user interface, the screen, from the Central Power Unit to the Graphic card (Fehily 108). For instance, when working on large files, playing games or watching a video, a computer must be installed with a graphic card. Video cards were developed following the invention of computers. As such, any integrated version of a computer made, would see a new version of a graphic card (David and Shoemake 700). In olden times, computers used printed cards. In the early 1960s, IBM was the first to innovate a graphic card which was aimed at replacing the printed cards. The first video card was used on a personal computer. At that time, the video cards were referred to as Monochrome Display adapters and were only applied when text mode was in use. It was an elementary kind of thing as green was the only color that appeared on the screen of a computer (Fehily 109). Later on, during the 1980s, another version of MDAs was invented which only used color red. This posed a problem since no pictures would appear to exhibit both colors. It was either green or red. Later in 1980s, several improved graphic cards were made. Another generation of MDAs was introduced in the 1990’s and this was referred to as Video Graphic Adapter, today known as VGA. This had the ability of displaying images with different colors and would even show an image at a better resolution (Thorn 241). It was due to this innovation that many companies came into existence. A good example of a company which came into being as a result of the invention of the VGA is the Cirrus Logic. The invention of another version of VGA, however, did not take long. Super VGA was more superior and upgraded compared to the other versions. It had 256 colors and an internal memory of 2 mega bytes (Thorn 247). Video card development did not stop at this point and in the mid 1990s, another generation was introduced. This came in the form of 2D and 3D. 2D and 3D video cards showed graphics that were multi dimensional. The most recent innovation was the Voodoo. This was, and remains to be, the greatest innovation of all times in regards to graphic cards. It helped software developers come up with in-depth graphics with the help