About Graphics Processing Unit (GPU):
- A GPU is an electronic circuit board that can quickly perform many mathematical calculations.
- Like a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a GPU is also a chip component in computing devices.
- The technology was originally designed to speed up 3-D graphics rendering.
- Since its introduction in the 1990s, the GPU has transformed computer software and video games, allowing programmers to produce vivid and realistic images on screens.
- More recently, GPUs have been used beyond computer graphics in areas including high-performance computing, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), weather forecasting and cryptocurrency mining.
CPU vs. GPU:
- CPUs are designed to handle general-purpose tasks such as running applications and managing system resources.
- On the other hand, GPUs are optimized for specific tasks such as rendering 3D graphics and video decoding.
- CPUs have fewer cores than GPUs, but each core is capable of handling more complex instructions.
- This means that CPUs can handle sequential tasks more efficiently than GPUs, but GPUs outperform CPUs when it comes to parallel tasks like image rendering or video encoding/decoding.
