Graphics vs Visuals - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between graphics and visuals

is that graphics is the making of architectural or design drawings while visuals is plural of lang=en.

(wikipedia graphics) (computer graphics) (-)

The making of architectural or design drawings.

The graphic arts.

(computing) The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data.

(computing) The art or visual representations displayed by a computer.

This game is really fun, but the graphics aren't very good.

* graphics engine * pseudographics * vector graphics

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