How are CPUs and GPUs different in build? What tasks are handled by the GPU instead of CPU and what about the architecture makes it more suited to those tasks?

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How are CPUs and GPUs different in build? What tasks are handled by the GPU instead of CPU and what about the architecture makes it more suited to those tasks?

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Answer 1

My favorite description was that a CPU is like having someone with a PhD per core. A gpu is like having an army of millions of kindergarteners. Want to do complex math on a lot of data? Hand it to the 8 PhDs. Want to fill in a bunch of tiny spots with a different color? Pitch it to the kindergarteners.

Edit: haha, glad you all enjoyed this description as much as I did.