What is a 3D graphics card and what is the difference in having a graphics card or a video card?

also, how to determine if i have a 3D graphics card? i opened start-%26gt;acc-%26gt;system tools-%26gt;system info, and it said that my system has adapter RAM to be 128, does it mean my laptop has an inbuilt graphic card?|||1-it is the same


2-Yes|||Video card, graphics card, they're the same. And they both do render 3D graphics. Usually, a laptop has a built-in video card to conserve space.|||The difference is that a built-in graphics eats up your CPU cycles these represents as a brain cell if the built-in video shares resources from the CPU to run its GPU then your computer slow's down also built-in video eats memory to lets say you have a 128mb of ram and 32mb of built-in video 128mb less 32mb is 96mb so you have 96mb left for your system which is very small if your running windows XP and it will slow down again your computer while in the other hand having a stand alone Video Card makes a difference, because it has its own GPU and RAM it doesn't rely on your whole system I hope this would enlighten you.