CPU vs GPU

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    I watched this and was vaguely interested, but what is a GPU first and foremost, and secondly, beyond its entertainment strictly within the context of these peoples presentation, what value does this thing have in any realm..

    - what is it technological value
    - what is its artistic value
    - what is its educational value
    - what is its practical value

    I couldn;t really see anything other than two very pleased boffins who have once again managed to make their parents really extremely proud of them for the hundredth time since their fourtieth birthdays.

    Someone is going to come along now and illuminate me, leaving me feeling like a total moron for missing the point entirely. Happens to me twice a day on here.

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    • Graphic Processing Unit
      vs
      Central Processing Unit      anairn
    • You could have just written 'pish'Jnr_Madison
    • CPU (non multi-core,anyway) is essentially a single instruction, run sequentially.
      GPU's kind of the same, except      anairn
    • it handles a massive array of data during that one cycle. It's like the difference between a single vector point and a bmpanairn
    • 'bitmap image' or something.
      Actually, I'm as clueless as you, but that's the point I thought they were making.      anairn
    • Ah right, so its metaphorical demonstration of the difference, not a product they've invented!
      Now I feel stupid!!!!!      SkyPoo
    • Thanks for explaining that to me. I had the sound off so maybe I would have got it with sound, maybe, hmmm.SkyPoo
    • ( I just thought they'd knocked up a giant Mona Lisa gun in the shed)SkyPoo
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