Could someone explain everything about graphics cards?

[Cleeecooo]

All in the title. Some of the questions I have are:

What is a passively cooled card?
What are VRM chips?
What are shader clocks?
What is the yield?

Could you also explain everything about cores please, thanks.

Please keep it as simple as possible, thanks.

 

[Cleeecooo]

Passively cooled card does not have a fan, just a very large chunk of metal.

VRM chips are the voltage regulators that take the 12V and spread it about to other chips and keep the voltage nice and steady and ripple free.

Shader clocks are the frequency in MHZ of the Shader cores within the GPU chip.

Yield is how many chips the manufacturing plant can get from on silicon wafer.

thanks for the quick reply, but what are all the different core eg. shader, the amount of core (like a 5750 has 720)

 

[Cleeecooo]

Thanks. So shader cores are the way of measuring the processing core?

 

[Cleeecooo]

Thanks for all your help