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

CPUs use a few fast cores and are much better at complex linear tasks and GPUs use many weak cores and are better at parallel tasks. To use an analogy, the CPU does the hard math problems and the GPU does many, many easy problems all at once. Together they can tackle any test quickly and efficiently.