Why are high powered graphics cards needed in cryto mining?

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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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When you render an image, you have to do thousands of little tasks in a short time frame all in parallel. Due to this, graphics cards excel in calculations where you have to do many things in parallel. CPUs are different and excel more in few, hard tasks.

Mining is the brute forcing of a solution, a lot of little tasks that you can complete in parallel.

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