Why are GPUs so big, while CPUs are so small?
In: Engineering
A CPU and GPU are just chips, and they’re about the same size.
A GPU gets soldered onto a circuit board along with video RAM chips, and a big cooler is mounted to it. This entire assembly is a video card, and it’s quite big.
A CPU gets mounted onto a motherboard, gets a big cooler attached on top of it, and RAM sticks are also installed into the motherboard. This entire assembly is comparable to a video card, and is in fact typically quite a bit larger.
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