GPU

Graphics Processing Unit

A specialized type of processor that is designed to accelerate the creation and rendering of images, videos, and animations.

A GPU contains many small, powerful cores that are optimized to perform the complex mathematical calculations needed to create and display graphics. They are designed to perform the same type of calculations over and over again in parallel, making them well-suited to tasks such as rendering 3D graphics, video decoding and encoding, and machine learning.

Most of the common GPUs are manufactured by Nvidia and AMD. These GPUs are used in a wide range of devices, including personal computers, laptops, workstations, game consoles, and mobile devices. They are also used in cloud-based environments, such as AWS and GCP, to provide GPU-accelerated instances for tasks such as deep learning and scientific computing.

Modern GPUs have thousands of cores, which allows them to perform many calculations simultaneously. They also have a large amount of memory, known as VRAM (video RAM), which is used to store the images and other data that the GPU is working on. This allows the GPU to quickly access the data it needs, and to perform calculations on that data without having to wait for the CPU to fetch it from system memory.

A GPU is a specialized processor that is designed to accelerate the creation and rendering of images, videos, and animations. They are powerful, versatile, and efficient when it comes to parallel computation tasks, which makes them an essential component of many devices and environments such as Gaming, AI, scientific computing, and Machine learning (ML).

• Abbreviation: GPU