What is GPU?

GPU

GPU stands for Graphics Processing Unit. A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a dedicated electronic circuit planned to swiftly manipulate and modify memory to increase speed the making of images in a frame buffer projected for output to a presentation device. GPUs are used in implanted systems, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game comforts. Modern GPUs are very effective at manipulating computer graphics and image treating. Their highly parallel assembly makes them more efficient than general-purpose CPUs for processes that process large blocks of data incomparable. In a personal computer, a GPU can be present on a video card or embedded on the motherboard. In certain CPUs, they are embedded on the CPU die.

GPU Graphic Processing Unit

The term GPU has been used from at least the 1980s it was promoted by NVidia in 1999, who advertised the GeForce 256 as "the world's first GPU". It was presented as a "single-chip processor with incorporated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines". Rival ATI Technologies invented the term "Visual Processing Unit" or VPU with the release of the Radeon 9700 in 2002.