Why are GPUs so big, while CPUs are so small?

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Why are GPUs so big, while CPUs are so small?

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In ELI5 short, CPU has the motherboard to support it with power control, memory etc while a GPU has to do all this by itself. This is because GPUs came later than CPUs and the general interface was thus laid for CPU.

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