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graphics processing unit

Specialized electronic circuit; graphics accelerator

Also known as GPU · visual processing unit · VPU · graphics accelerator · graphic unit · video unit

Instance of: processor type
Subclass of: coprocessor
, vector processor
Part of: graphics card
, system on a chip

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A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a component on a discrete graphics card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles. GPUs are also increasingly being used for artificial intelligence (AI) processing and model training due to linear algebra acceleration, which is also used extensively in graphics processing.

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Members / parts: texture mapping unit
texture cache
L2 cache
shader pipeline
shared L2 cache
Main Wikidata property: GPU
Different from: graphics card
Short name: GPU

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