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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The CPU does general processing. It can do a bit of everything and is the first choice for most calculations needed by a computer. It also “manages” the rest of the computer. The GPU is also a processor, but it is specialized for graphics computing. It’s not very good at most of the stuff the CPU can do, if it can even do them at all, but it’s very, very, very good at the sort of computations needed for graphics, and computations similar to that.
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