Learn About Desktop GPUs

Desktop GPU quick guide

What is it?

It stands for graphics processing unit (GPU). It is a processor that is specialized in computing graphics very fast. With a GPU in your computer, you will be able to run graphic intensive programs smoothly such as 3D games. Lately, GPUs have been specializing in many more things like accelerating the performance of many programs that can take advantage of the GPU's highly parallel structure (Embarrassingly Parallel), and deep learning neural networks.

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How does it work?

GPUs work by doing the following (over simplified) steps:

  1. Receive instructions from CPU
  2. Execute instructions (Graphics or Compute)
  3. Send graphics to display or store compute results in memory

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