What's The Difference Between A Cpu And A Gpu?

[Goosmo]

Title.

[Angius]

CPU - processor (Central Processing Unit)

GPU - graphics card (Graphics Processing Unit)

Edited April 6, 2014 by Angius

[J0TAR0]

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[Goosmo]

CPU - processor (Central Processing Unit)

GPU - graphics card (Graphics Processing Unit)

[Katakuna]

Your CPU is the brain of your computer.  

 

Your GPU is your graphics card.

[JefPlays]

The two are almost completely different.

 

The CPU is what handles most of your "everyday" processing needs. It does most calculations and interfaces with memory. The GPU, however, is strictly for rendering images to the screen.

[Angius]

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What?

[Cemges]

Simply explaining, for games,

Cpu createsa virtual reality and uses mathematical calculations to do so, so it creates a sense of 3 d objects. Gpu, creates an image for your eyes and translates that into pixels so you see, that is resolving the equation of a virtual object into pixels, hence the term resolution. Cpu creates an idea and gpu turns that into virtual imagination

Thats the basic idea.

Cpu are capable of making less but more complex calculations in series, where as gpus are fsr more efficient in multiple, simple tasks made simultaneously in parallel. But the main idea is using a 3 d space and geometric calculations to create objects and deciding how they move.

Edited April 6, 2014 by Cemges

[Freelancer27]

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No offense, but...

Your response compels me to feel a troll inside. :l

[Marshall]

CPU and GPU are hardware components with their own weaknesses and strengths.

The main difference is the capability to process certain tasks at a given complexity within some period of time.