Are you using a computer which can’t run 3-D image processing soft wares or high-end 3-D games?
Then I am 100% sure that your PC wouldn’t have a GPU. So, today in this post I am going to explain what are GPUs? and why they are used in computers and other devices?
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is an electronic circuit specially made to enhance the capability of computer to process the images at a very high rate and more efficiently.
Many gadgets where GPU is employed are
- Gaming consoles like PSP, Play-stations etc.
- Smart phones
- PCs
- Work stations (A single computer with multi-user Operating system)
But now the question arises how GPUs can do these tasks so efficiently?GPUs have few thousands of cores which work in parallel to render (to produce) images at very high rate.
First company to develop GPU was NVIDIA in 1999 and it was GeForce 256. Some specs of Geforce 256 are follows
- It could process 10 million polygons or 17 millions triangle per second
- It could do billions of calculations per second
- It had 22 million transistors at that time (1999) which is marvelous
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