What Does Super Video Graphics Array (Super VGA or SVGA) Mean?
Super video graphics array (Super VGA or SVGA) is a high-resolution standard used to channel video data to a compatible visual output device - usually a computer monitor. This is actually a broad umbrella term for other computer display standards. Originally, it was just an extension to the VGA standard, which was a purely IBM-defined standard also known as ultra video graphics array (UVGA).
Techopedia Explains Super Video Graphics Array (Super VGA or SVGA)
The SVGA standards have never truly been defined, and the closest to an official definition was in the VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) created by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The VBE stated - only in a footnote - that the term Super VGA was used in the document to refer to a graphics display controller that implements any of the supersets of the IBM-defined VGA display adapter.
