I know what purpose they serve, but aren’t they both just doing calculations?
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CPU: A jack-of-all-trades who can do pretty much every task you throw at it, but can’t do a lot of them at once.
GPU: A specialized robot assembly line which excels in doing a specific task very efficiently, but completely fails if you give it another task.
As it happens, computing graphics is exactly one of these repetitive tasks that are always the same and need to be done millions of times a second. However, GPUs aren’t really limited to graphics calculations, for example crypto mining is also really efficient on GPUs since it’s also very repetitive.
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