I know I saw somewhere else that goes into more detail about the actual graphics processor on video cards, but I forgot. Basically, the brain of the card is the processor which is basically a CPU that is specifically designed to handle graphics processing. It has parts to render polygons and texture them. It also has pixel shaders to help alter the image as a programmer wants them to appear.
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