Hi guys, in a nutshell, what’s the difference between a cpu & gpu? I understand gpu is a graphics card, but what’s the process differences? & why does bitcoin mining prefer gpu over a high end cpu?
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A CPU is like a college professor. It can do anything, and is really efficient so he can do many things at once (4-16 usually).
A GPU is a classroom full of kindergartners. They’re kinda dumb and can only do simple things. But there’s a bazillion of them.
The reason that mining prefers a GPU is that it only requires one calculation, over and over again until you guess the correct answer. So you can teach that room full of kindergartners to do this one calculation and since there’s so many of them you can get a lot done. The professor can only do 8 at a time
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