1.1.2.2 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

Question 1

What is a GPU?

Answer 1

• A specialized processing unit with a huge number of small cores that allow efficient parallel computation for tasks such as computer graphics, machine learning, data mining etc.
• A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a device which unlike CPUs has lots of independent processors which work in parallel making it very efficient at completing repetitive tasks
  such as image processing and machine learning.
• GPUs are a type of co-processor:
  A secondary processor designed to supplement the activities of the primary processor.