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VGA, stands for Video Graphics Adapter, is an analog computer display standard that was first marketed by IBM in 1987. Although the VGA standard is no longer used because it has been replaced by a newer standard, VGA is still implemented on the Pocket PC. VGA is the latest graphics standards followed by the majority of graphics card manufacturer of your computer. Display Windows until now still use VGA mode as supported by many manufacturers of monitors and graphics cards.

The term VGA is often used to refer to a screen resolution of 640 × 480 size, whatever the hardware maker graphics card. VGA card allows you to translate the computer output to the monitor. For the graphic design or playing video games, needed a powerful graphics card is high. Manufacturer of the famous graphics cards include ATI and nVidia.

In addition, the VGA can also refer to the connector 15-pin VGA which is still widely used to deliver analog video signals to the monitor. VGA standard was officially replaced by IBM's XGA standard, but in fact it was replaced by VGA Super VGA.