How do the graphics card, RAM, and processor all work together to determine performance of a PC?
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Think of a computer as a restaurant.
The CPU is the head chef and sou chefs that manages all the tasks and sets up the menus. The faster or more experienced chefs will increase the performance but they are expensive. These chefs work harder and faster than any individual worker but they can’t operate an entire restaurant by themselves.
Most of the work goes to the line cooks which are the GPUs. While they are slower and less experienced, there are a lot more of them and they are cheaper to hire. They work in parallel to cook individual steps of a dish and put it together. If they are well trained and work faster, the restaurant can serve food faster. More of them can also increase sales if the restaurant can scale to allow more demand.
RAM is the kitchen space. You need tables to hold ingredients for processing food. More dishes means more tables. GPU RAM is the stoves and cooking areas. Food from the tables (RAM) need to be transfered to these areas for specific processing by the line chefs (GPU). If your kitchen is too small, you will end up with “too many cooks in the kitchen” and end up slowing the entire process.
Lastly, storage of food is the hard drive space. It takes some time to pull out the food and have it ready for the kitchen.
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