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the cine quinone of any gaming PC these days is the graphics card I mean there's

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plenty of other cool components that you can throw in your rig but nothing quite

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matches the experience of unboxing and

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slotting in a new GPU to turn a

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run-ofthe-mill computer into a gaming battle station but hold on a minute have

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you ever wondered why we need a separate

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GPU at all I mean instead of the whole PCI Express card Paradigm why haven't we

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seen something like a dual CPU board where you can tell your computer to use

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one CPU for CPU things and then the other CPU can be just for graphics I

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mean are those big clunky cards really

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necessary great question on the surface

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CPUs and gpus appear to be very similar

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they are both silicon based microprocessors mounted to a PCB with

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heat sinks attached to them but when you look at their microarchitecture they

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have some fundamental differences that make them suited for different roles

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inside your PC think of it like this many people go around carrying Swiss

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Army knives everywhere they go because they're very useful multi-purpose tools

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they can cut things they can open wine bottles and even pick last night's

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broccoli out of your teeth but suppose you're unlucky enough to need an

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operation because you met with an unfortunate land party Act accident you

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probably don't want the surgeon just flicking open a Swiss army knife and

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going to town instead he or she will use a surgical knife or even a laser cutter

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they can't do all the things a Swiss army knife can but they're specialized

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devices that can do one thing very very

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well similarly your computer's main CPU

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is good at doing lots of different things quickly modern PCS are very

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general purpose machines that can do you know spreadsheets or write horrible

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fanfiction or illustrate aforementioned horrible fanfiction make Skype calls

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listening to deeply embarrassing music play games edit audio video the list

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goes on because of this your CPU needs to be able to handle lots of random and

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diverse instructions efficiently so that

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you can multitask without wanting to pull your hair out gpus however are

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really only there for one Purpose with

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an asterisk to render Graphics which

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involves doing millions of very similar

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calculations at the same time in parallel because of this gpus are

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focused more on Raw throughput than a CPU which is designed to be much more

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versatile and and balance all these different workloads like a waiter with

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you know 18 plates stacked up on top of each other GPU architecture usually

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features lots and lots of identical

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compute units that deal with solving the similar mathematical functions that

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determine how a bullets trajectory or waving bra Blades of grass or whatever

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show up on your screen in fact the

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highly parallelized nature of a GPU has

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led to a growth in popularity of general

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purpose Computing on graphics cards as well commonly known as

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gpgpu certain applications aside from

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games this is where the asterisk comes in can take advantage of higher end gpus

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things like Bitcoin mining or Stanford universi folding at home project which

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calculates the way that proteins fold for disease research both of these

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require the type of heavy number crunching that gpus excel at but while

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gpus are finding uses other than just gaming you probably won't want to try

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and run your operating system on a graphics card as the differences between

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your GPU and CPU are still very significant so don't expect the idea of

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using a separate graphics card to go away anytime soon and after all there's

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nothing quite like showing off your high-end card through the side panel

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window to be the Envy of all your friends without having to hide it under

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a CPU heat sink speaking of hiding I'm

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