Graphic

Processing Unit
(GPU)

A graphics
processing
unit (GPU),
also known as
the visual
processing
unit (VPU),
is
a
specialized electronic
circuit built
to
quickly
change and manipulate the
memory to catalayze the
forming of visuals in a frame buffer intended for output to a display. GPUs are used in built in
systems,cellphones,private desktops, workstations, and gaming consoles. Modern GPUs are very
efficient at altering computer visuals and image processing, and their highly parallel structure
makes them perform at a better rate than standard CPUs for algorithms where the transforming
of massive blocks of visual data is done simultaneously. In a private desktop, a GPU can be built
on a video card, or it can be embedded on the motherboard.
The term GPU was coined by Nvidia in 1999, whom published the GeForce 256 as "the world's
first GPU", or Graphics Processing Unit. It was shown as a "single-chip processor with
integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that are capable of
processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second".Opponent ATI Technologies used the
term visual processing unit or VPU with the marketing of the Radeon 9700 in 2002.
Modern GPUs commit a majority of their transistors to do mathematical and logical calculations
regarding 3D computer graphics. They were earlier committed to catalyze the memory-intensive
work
of texture
mapping and rendering polygons,
later
upping
units
to
quicken geometric calculations
such
as
the
rotation and translation of vertices into
different coordinate systems. Recent improvements in GPUs include support for programmable
shaders capable of altering vertices and textures with many of the same operations supported
by CPUs, oversampling and interpolation techniques to decrease aliasing, and very highprecision color
spaces.
Because
a
majority
of
these
computations
involve matrix and vector operations, engineers and scientists have increasingly studied the use
of GPUs for non-graphical calculations.

In addition to the 3D hardware, today's GPUs include basic 2D acceleration and frame
buffer capabilities (usually with a VGA compatibility mode). Newer cards like AMD/ATI
HD5000-HD7000 even lack 2D acceleration; it has to be emulated by 3D hardware.
An external GPU is a graphics processor located outside of the housing of the computer. External
graphics processors are often used with laptop computers. Laptops might have a substantial
amount of RAM and a sufficiently powerful central processing unit (CPU), but often lack a
powerful graphics processor (and instead have a less powerful but more energy-efficient onboard graphics chip). On-board graphics chips are often not powerful enough for playing the
latest games, or for other taskS.

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry inside a system that does
the instructions of a computer program executing the basic arithmetic, logical, control
and input/output (I/O) operations as per the instructions. Normally, the phrase "CPU" refers to a
processor, in detail, to its processing unit and (CU), differentiating these core elements of a
computer from external components such as main memory and I/O circuitry.
The structure, design and designation of CPUs have morphed over time, but their fundamental
operation remains almost unchanged. Main parts of a CPU include the arithmetic logic
unit (ALU) that performs arithmetic and logic operations, processor registers that
provide operands to the ALU and stores the results of ALU operations, and a CU that picks up
instructions from memory and "executes" them by having the coordinated operations of the
ALU, registers and other components..
The basic operation of the majority of CPUs, execute a programme based on the sequence of
instructions provided. The computer memory stores all the instructions to be processed. Nearly
all CPUs follow the fetch, decode and execute steps in their operation, this is known as the
instruction cycle.
After the execution, repetition occurs, with the next instruction cycle fetching the next command
because of the addition to the increment value in the program counter. The program counter will
be altered to include the address of the instruction program execution continues normally. Inside
more complicated CPUs, a multitude of instructions can be fetched, decoded, and executed
simultaneously. The RISC Pipleline, largely blind sides the paramount position of the CPU
cache.
Some instructions manipulate the program counter than providing result data directly; such
instructions are generally called "jumps" and facilitate program behavior like loops, conditional

program execution (through the use of a conditional jump), and existence of functions. In some
processors, some other instructions change the state of bits in a "flags" register.

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Difference Between CPU & GPU

The CPU (central processing unit) has often been called the brains of the PC. But increasingly,
that brain is being enhanced by another part of the PC the GPU (graphics processing unit),
which is its soul. All PCs have chips that render the display images to monitors. But not all these
chips are created equal.

Visual Representation of Difference Between CPU & GPU