Frame Buffer (Noun)
Meaning
(computer science) a buffer that stores the contents of an image pixel by pixel.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The graphics card accessed the frame buffer in order to send the video signal to the monitor for display.
- To improve overall system performance, developers optimized the code that managed the frame buffer during gameplay.
- Modern GPUs typically have multiple frame buffers allocated, each handling different visual tasks in parallel.
- Before rendering the next frame, the frame buffer from the previous scene had to be fully updated to prevent artifacts.
- A common technique for reducing memory usage was to use a shared frame buffer among multiple graphical components.