What is a CPU?
A GPU, or graphics processing unit, is a specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation and rendering of images, videos, and animations for display on a computer screen. It handles complex mathematical calculations required for rendering graphics, which allows the central processing unit (CPU) to focus on other tasks, thereby improving overall system performance. GPUs are essential not only for gaming and multimedia applications but also for professional fields like 3D modeling, video editing, and scientific simulations. There are mainly two types of GPUs: integrated GPUs, which are built into the CPU or motherboard and share the system’s memory, making them more cost-effective and energy-efficient but less powerful; and dedicated GPUs (also known as discrete GPUs), which are separate expansion cards with their own memory and processing resources, offering much higher performance suitable for demanding graphical tasks and heavy workloads.
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