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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Graphics cards used to be for displaying and drawing things only and for connecting a monitor. Early graphics cards were little more than memory (framebuffer) which contained the currently displayed image and made sure it was repeatedly sent to the monitor.
Over the years they became much more versatile. Modern GPUs (graphics processing unit) can do all kinds of mathematical operations. What distinguishes them from CPUs is that they can do those operations on lots of data in parallel. This makes them very suitable for some kinds of calculations. The graphics cards in crypto mining computers often don’t even have a monitor connector. They are purely used for mathematical/cryptographic calculations only.
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