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 is, typically, a very simple algorithm that involves guessing what the right input is going to be then running the algorithm and seeing if you were right. It takes a bunch of computer work to do it, but when you’re done you’ve either got the right answer and win some crypto coins, or the wrong answer and you get nothing.
A graphics card is a piece of hardware that does a neat trick: you give it a lot of different inputs and it runs the same algorithm on all of them at the same time.
For crypto mining, you can make a lot of guesses of what the right input is, then have the graphics card try them all at the same time. This is much faster than trying each guess one at a time.
Graphics card are like this because a lot of computer graphics processing has a similar “many inputs, one algorithm” kind of problem to solve.
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