How do the graphics card, RAM, and processor all work together to determine performance of a PC?
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CPU is its ability to do math. Everything a computer does is dictated by math, so this makes things faster. However you can’t get faster than almost instant (dictated by speed of electrons wizzing around inside) so if the CPU is able to go at that speed, other things may slow it down instead.
This is where we get to RAM. RAM (Random Access Memory) is the computers ability to remember things quickly. The CPU can’t remember things on its down, so if you want it to, say, remember the keys you are typing in your keyboard, it needs RAM to hold that information until the CPU needs it. If the RAM is smaller than is needed, we get issues. On solution is to temporary store information on your hard drive, that that is orders of manitude slower, so your CPU has to twiddle it non-existent thumbs and sit around and wait for the numbers it needs to get to it so it can do more math.
The Graphics card (GPU) is just another specialized CPU that has it’s own RAM built in with it. 3D graphics involved LOT of very complicated math done very quickly. The GPU does that math so the CPU doesn’t have to bother and it’s custom build to do that specific math very well. If it’s not good enough, you graphics will go behind. See the above two explanations for details, as either the GPU or it’s dedicated RAM will be at issue. You’re CPU can’t handle it’s own work and modern 3d graphics at once.
Things that do not require 3d graphics do not use the GPU at all, usually. Crytocurrency happens to use similar math to 3d graphics, so that’s why those are used for that. Hope that helps!
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