How come a CPU has very few cores compared to a GPU that has thousands of cores and what causes GPU cores to be so small?
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CPUs are very general purpose, they can do lots of different operations (they have a large “Instruction Set”). GPUs on the other hand are very specialized in what the can do. This means that single GPU core is much smaller (and simpler) than a CPU core, but also that a GPU cannot do most of the things a CPU can,
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