How GPUs are Disrupting High-Performance Computing

Visual Capitalist April 3, 2024
Chris Dickert

GPUs and High-Performance Computing

Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, have moved beyond their original role of rendering video game graphics and are now used in a variety of high-performance computing applications (HPC), from AI training to zooplankton classification.

To help understand this pivot, we’ve teamed up with HIVE Digital to look at how GPUs differ from traditional CPUs and what gives them an edge.

CPU vs. GPUs

CPUs, or Central Processing Units, and GPUs, generally have three main elements:

• compute elements—technically ALU or arithmetic logic units—that perform calculations and carry out operations;
• a control element that coordinates the operations of the above; and
• various levels of memory, including dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a kind of RAM or...

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