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What is the fundamental difference between Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)?


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The Graphics Processing Unit (CPU) is an electronic circuit (processor) specialized for display functions. The GPU renders images, animations and video for the computer’s screen. Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating computer graphics and image processing; thus, they are used primarily for 3D game rendering.

There is a fundamental difference between a GPU and a CPU, which is based on how they process tasks. A CPU consists of a few cores with lots of cache memory and it is optimized for sequential serial processing of tasks. By contrast, a GPU consists of thousands of smaller cores and
it is designed for parallel processing from the very beginning. The ability to handle thousands of threads simultaneously makes GPUs more efficient than the general-purpose of CPUs for algorithms where the compute-intensive portions can be executed in parallel. If CPU is the brains of the computer, then GPU is the soul of the computer.