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Processor specifically designed to perform fast memory manipulation, with instructions specifically tailored to handle computer graphics processing and rendering

GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a processor specifically designed to perform fast memory manipulation, with instructions specifically tailored to handle computer graphics processing and rendering.

A GPU can be present in a video card, on a motherboard or even in a specially designed CPU.

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Can the GPU use the main computer RAM (as an extension)?

I have a laptop with a dedicated GPU, Nvidia Quadro P3200. It has 6 GB of RAM. The laptop also has 32 GB of “normal” (CPU?) RAM. I’m planning on using the GPU for parallel computing, running physics simulations. Some of these involve quite big…
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Running a computer without Integrated Graphics or Dedicated GPU

Is it possible to run a computer without integrated graphics and no dedicated gpu? If so would it be able to perform basic functions such as browsing the web. If not then why wouldn't it work?
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Does the ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4250 count as UMA or not?

I need to order some replacement parts for my laptop (HP 625) and which audio I/O board I pick depends on whether my model has a system board "with UMA graphics subsystem" or not. Could somebody please tell me whether the Mobility HD 4250 qualifies…
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Why can I run 23,000 CUDA threads on the GeForce GTX 480 GPU?

Someone has told me that the GeForce GTX 480 GPU can run 23,000 CUDA threads concurrently. However, I am confused about why. Each core of this GPU contains 2 groups of 16 SIMD units. Each SIMD unit has 8 ALUs and instruction contexts. There are 15…
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What is this thing on top of my GPU? (Looks like paper)

Today I disassembled my laptop for the first time, to clean it from dusts and replace its thermal paste. But when I remove the cooling system, I saw something different in my GPU, it looks like paper, I don't know what it is and if it is…
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if I don't game, why else I may need a good graphics card?

I capture screen for hours every now and then - somebody mentioned a good GPU is needed for this.. I watch videos - sometimes they are HD. I do web-design sometimes (not animation work though.) Does onboard GPU that comes with sandy bridge…
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Effect of different GPU frequency ranges in Intel Core M

I just noticed that with the Broadwell line of Intel CPUs, Wikipedia for the first time lists a GPU frequency, and that range is different for each chip despite the GPU model being the same. Model sSpec Cores Frequency Turbo GPU …
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What's the difference between GPUs Familys be it NVIDIA or ATI?

Just started doing research on the hardwre/GPU world but still, there are some things i dont understand/know. For exmample, what's the difference between the GeForce, Quadro, Tesla & Tegra for NVIDIA and the ATIFirepro, ATIRadeon & ATI Mobility…
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What Are The Advantages of a Dedicated video card?

Everywhere I go on the internet I hear people saying a dedicated graphics card is better than an integrated graphics card. What advantages does it have that makes it so much better? Dedicated graphic cards have their own memory built in but if I…
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4080 vs 3080 TI. Upgade requirements

I plan to replace my GPU which is a 3080TI by a 4080 or 4070. Is there anything which I should be worried about or replacing is a smooth one? (other than wattage). Interestingly my used 3080 ti seem to be vauled at least as much as a new 4070 or…
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Can you place the gpu on a metal surface?

The metal surface would be aluminum and it is the "theoretical" pc case that is has the above mentioned gpu plugged in to it an running, basically it is a half\open case with the gpu on top. Making the case completely out of plexi, would that be a…
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What exactly is preventing us from running an os on a GPU?

Modern GPUs seam increadibly flexible. THey are freely programmable using CUDA or OPENCL, they have loads of cores and completely overshadow any cpu in raw instructions per second. They seam to have a complete instruction set and loads of ram. So…
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TensorFlow low GPU utilization

I am running Windows 10 on a Core I7-8700 CPU with a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. When training models, the GPU utilization is very low (5-10% at max, sometimes lower) even if the network is five layers. CPU utilization on the other hand is 30% and…
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How can I stress test a GPU?

I have a HP Pavilion dv5000 that is shutting down unexpectedly. I stress tested it with a BartPe CD (UBCD4Win) using Prime95 and it it ran at 100% CPU for hours without shutting down. This rules out the the CPU overheating from being the…
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Incredible graphic glitch

I tried to watch a video on Youtube, on HD. the very moment I hit play, my screen enters the matrix : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDPLUnbnZI I immediately reset, and my screen now blinked like it was about to die. used some built-in LCD…
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