The reason that I am having problems understanding this is because when I imagine crypto mining, I imagine basically an infinite command prompt constantly running. In my uneducated mind I don’t seeing this as a graphics drain I see it as taxing the gpu and ram. I am below beginner in my knowledge of computers. Thanks in advance!
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A lot of people already explained the difference between CPU and GPU, but I didn’t see one touch on your comment about “the infinite command prompt”.
The truth is that everything in the PC works together. When you play a game, the hard drive has to push data to the RAM, and the CPU does this, then it takes data that’s meant for the GPU and tosses into the GPU’s RAM, then the GPU processes it and throws it on the screen (as the graphics you see).
So you can’t just have a GPU, you need everything.
BUT the data the GPU processes does not necessarily need to be dumped on the screen. Crypto uses the GPU to process the data, and then sends the processed data back to the hard drive, re-encoded with the solutions. You don’t need to see that. All you need is for a prompt to tell you how the process is going, so just a tiny portion of the program will be for providing a visual event log of what’s happening, and that’s what you see as the “infinite command line”
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