Graphics processing unit
Specialized electronic circuit; graphics accelerator / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"GPU" redirects here. For other uses, see GPU (disambiguation).
For an expansion card that contains a graphics processing unit, see graphics card.
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed to accelerate computer graphics and image processing (either on a video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles). After their initial design, GPUs were found to be useful for non-graphic calculations involving embarrassingly parallel problems due to their parallel structure. Other non-graphical uses include the training of neural networks and cryptocurrency mining.