They also offer a lot of bang for the buck. Despite their awesome processing power, graphic chips are dirt cheap. Though Intel's entrance into the low-cost integrated chipset market lessens this advantage, it is by no means a foregone conclusion that the processor giant can dominate and keep up with nimble graphics chip companies. Today graphics chips are doing a lot of the processing needed for 2D animation, 3D rendering, shading, texture mapping. The problem with spending a hundred dollars more for 33 MHz more in processor speed is that the average user doesn't experience a gain.
Visual quality is such a simple, but emotional criteria.
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