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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Crypto mining boils down to mathematics with huge numbers. CPUs are not the best for this job because it takes a lot of clock cycles to multiply 2 numbers to begin with and they can only have up to 16-ish cores so they can do at most 16 calculations at a time. GPUs are specifically tailored to do just that: parallelised fast mathematics. Each multiplication is done in just a couple of clock cycles and and they have hundreds of cores so they can make hundreds of multiplications at the same time.
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