why can’t we only use graphic card to run operating system… Just like we can play low end videos games with just cpu power?

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Curious

In: Technology

Answer 1

The CPU has a tiny GPU inside it, that’s why you can play low end games on it. Some CPU’s don’t have this and if you try to use it without a GPU you get no picture whatsoever. You can’t even see Windows.

You could in theory make a GPU with a tiny CPU in it but you’d need a special motherboard for it to work plus playing games on a GPU that would be high end enough to have something like this requires a decent CPU that they wouldn’t include inside a GPU.