What is a gpu? Introduction to gpu

1. The full name of GPU in English is GraphicProcessingUnit, which is translated as graphics processor in Chinese. We usually call it the graphics card. The GPU is the brain of the graphics card. It determines the grade and most performance of the graphics card. For traditional PCs, the GPU is also a 2D display.

The difference between card and 3D display card is based on that GPU is a graphics processor, also known as display core, visual processor, and display chip.

2. The GPU reduces the graphics card's dependence on the CPU and performs some of the original CPU's work. Especially in 3D graphics processing, the core technologies used by the GPU include hardware T&L (geometry conversion and lighting processing), cubic environment material mapping and vertices.

Mixing, texture compression and bump mapping, dual texture four-pixel 256-bit rendering engine, etc., and hardware T&L technology can be said to be the hallmark of GPU.

The main manufacturers of GPUs are NVIDIA and ATI.