General purpose graphics processing unit. Allows offloading of parallelizable computational tasks to the GPU.
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Are there any benefits for using the CPU instead of the GPU?
I've been researching processors and graphics cards, and I discovered that GPUs are way faster than CPUs. I read in this one article, a 2-year-old Nvidia GPU outperformed a 3.2GHz Core I7 Intel ...
