Rise of the GPU
John Gillooly of PC & TECH AUTHORITY magazine takes a look back at the history of 3D accelerators, and how they evolved beyond gaming.
Over recent years graphics processing has become more and more important on the PC. Processors that were once only used to make games look pretty are being utilised in more and varied ways, carving out a role that could become as key as the CPU is.
This has come about because Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are incredibly good at dealing with some types of processing workloads. GPUs are effectively massive arrays of floating point processors, which complement the CPU’s integer focus. This hasn’t always been the case, though – over the past 15 years, GPU development got to this point through a series of evolutionary steps. Read full article →
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