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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CPUs are very powerful, but have to be able to do anything the computer needs. There’s lots of boring stuff the has to be done to keep the computer running. The CPU has to do all of it.
GPUs only need to do one thing: the math required for rendering graphics. They do that extremely well. Much faster and more efficiently than a CPU can. But they can *only* do those things. That’s the tradeoff.
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