Graphics Processing Units
Global Positioning Unit. A navigational tool that assists travelers whether traveling by car, boat, plane or foot. These devices provide information pertaining to state and country boundaries, lakes, rivers, interstate highways even exit information for the federal interstate highway system. The GPU can locate services such as food, lodging and gas stations.
Graphics Processing Unit. The GPU is the processor found on a graphics card, and is the main chip for handling the work required to create the image produced on a display.
Graphics Processing Unit. The name of the chip on some newer video cards which are capable of performing 3D transform and lighting calculations. This offloads them from the CPU, resulting in better performance.
Graphics Processing Unit. A high-performance 3D processor that integrates the entire 3D pipeline (transformation, lighting, setup, and rendering). A GPU offloads all 3D calculations from the CPU, freeing the CPU for other functions such as physics and artificial intelligence.
Graphics Processing Unit. A Co-processor associated to the CPU, specialized in real-time graphical computations and manipulations (e.g texture mapping, geometry transforms). Recent advances in GPU technology have greatly enhanced VR experience.
A microprocessor specifically designed for processing 3D graphics data. This term was first coined by NVIDIA to describe its GeForce 256 chip. NVIDIA justified...
Graphic Processing Unit is a term coined by Nvidia, presently the leading manufacturer of graphics chips. A graphics processing unit is similar to a CPU except that it is designed exclusively for the purpose of processing graphics. Whereas some graphics cards require a fair amount of help from the CPU, a GPU reduces the CPU's graphics workload as much as possible, so it will be free for other tasks.
Used primarily for 3-D applications, a graphics-processing unit is a single-chip processor that creates lighting effects and transforms objects every time a 3D scene is redrawn. These are mathematically - intensive tasks, which otherwise, would put quite a strain on the CPU. Lifting this burden from the CPU frees up cycles that can be used for other jobs.
Graphics Processor Unit. Specialised microprocessor used for video cards.
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Refering to Graphics Processor Unit, a GPU takes on the task of working with Transform and Lighting (T&L) away from the CPU so it can focus on more important things such as AI.