Dictionary

A

AAC
Advanced Audio Coding
AGP
Accelerated Graphics Port
ATA
Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAPI
ATA Packet Interface
ATX
Advanced Technology Extended
AVX
Advanced Vector Extensions

B

BCLK
Base Clock

C

CMOS
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU
Central Processing Unit
CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Check
CUDA
Compute Unified Device Architecture

D

DAC
Digital To Analog Converter
Discretionary Access Control
DOA
Dead On Arrival
DP
Display Port
DRAM
Dynamic Random Access Memory
DVI
Digital Visual Interface

E

EGPU
External Graphics Processing Unit
EHCI
Enhanced Host Controller Interface
EIDE
Enhanced-IDE

F

FPS
Frames Per Second
First Person Shooter

G

GDDR
Graphics Double Data Rate
GPU
Graphics Processing Unit
GUI
Graphical User Interface

H

HDD
Hard Disk Drive
HDMI
High Definition Multimedia Interface
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol

I

IDE
Integrated Drive Electronics
Integrated development environment
IHS
Integrated Heat Spreader
IMC
Integrated Memory Controller
iSCSI
internet SCSI

N

NVRAM
Non Violated Random Access Memory
NVMe
Non-Volatile Memory Express

P

PATA
Parallel ATA
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCIe
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

R

RAM
Random Access Memory
RDMA
Remote Direct Memory Access
RoCE
RDMA over Converged Ethernet
RTC
Real Time Clock

S

SAS
Serial Attached SCSI
SATA
Serial ATA
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM
Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SLI
Scalable Link Interface
Scan Line Interleave
SRAM
Static Random Access Memory
SSD
Solid State Drive

U

USB
Universal Serial Bus

V

VGA
Video Graphics Array
VRAM
Video Random Access Memory
VRM
Voltage Regulator Module