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the cine quinone of any gaming PC these days is the graphics card I mean there's plenty of other cool components that you can throw in your rig but nothing quite matches the experience of unboxing and slotting in a new GPU to turn a run-of-the-mill computer into a gaming battle station but hold on a minute have you ever wondered why we need a separate GPU at all I mean instead of the whole PCI Express card paradigm why haven't we seen something like a dual CPU board where you can tell your computer to use one CPU for CPU things and then the other CPU can be just for graphics I mean are those big clunky cards really necessary great question on the surface CPUs and GPUs appear to be very similar they are both silicon based micro processors mounted to a PCB with heat sinks attached to them but when you look at their microarchitecture they have some fundamental differences that make them suited for different roles inside your PC think of it like this many people go around carrying Swiss Army knives everywhere they go because they're very useful multi-purpose tools they can cut things they can open wide bottles even pick last night's broccoli out of your teeth but suppose you're unlucky enough to need an operation because you met with an unfortunate land party accident you probably don't want the surgeon just flick and open a Swiss Army knife and going to town instead he or she will use a surgical knife or even a laser cutter they can't do all the things a Swiss Army knife can but they're specialized devices that can do one thing very very well similarly your computer's main CPU is good at doing lots of different things quickly modern pcs are very general purpose machines that can do you know spreadsheets or write horrible fanfiction or illustrate aforementioned horrible fanfiction make Skype calls listening to deeply embarrassing music please and edit audio/video the list goes on because of this your CPU needs to be able to handle lots of random and diverse instructions efficiently so that you can multitask without wanting to pull your hair out GPUs however are really only there for one purpose with an asterisk to render graphics which involves doing millions of very similar calculations at the same time in parallel because of this GPUs are focused more on raw throughput than a CPU which is designed to be much more versatile and and balanced all these different workloads like a waiter with you know 18 plates stacked up on top of each other GPU architecture usually features lots and lots of identical compute units that deal with solving the similar mathematical functions that determine how a bullets trajectory or waving Braille aids of glass or whatever show up on your screen in fact the highly parallelized nature of a GPU has led to a growth in popularity of general-purpose computing on graphics cards as well commonly known as GPGPU certain applications aside from games this is where the asterisk comes in can take advantage of higher-end GPUs things like Bitcoin mining or Stanford University's folding at-home project which calculates the way that proteins fold for Disease Research both of these require the type of heavy number-crunching that GPUs excel at but while GPUs are finding uses other than just gaming you probably won't want to try and run your operating system on a graphics card as the differences between your GPU and CPU are still very significant so don't expect the idea of using a separate graphics card to go away any time soon and after all there's nothing quite like showing off your high-end card through the side panel window to be the envy of all your friends without having to hide it under a CPU heatsink speaking of hiding I'm sure if you run a small business you're not hiding that accounting is like the worst part like I would rather take out the garbage then sit and go through all of that paperwork and fresh books is on a mission to make freelancers and small business owners less stressed out and more 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