CPUs and GPUs

Question

What is the difference in how they work? Why are consumer cpus usually limited to at the very most 10-12 cores when gpus have hundreds to thousands of different types of cores.

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Answer 1

My favorite video to explain the difference between the two, as explained by the Mythbusters

Cpus can do lots of different things, but do them relatively slowly. GPUs can do one thing really fast and well