GPU
abbreviation or noun
variants
or less commonly gpu
plural GPUs also gpus
: a specialized CPU designed to efficiently perform calculations for generating computer graphics
A GPU can deliver hundreds of billions of operations per second—some GPUs more than a teraflop, or a trillion operations per second—while requiring only slightly more electrical power and cooling than a CPU.—
Andrea Di Blas et al.
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Projects like Bless reward users for sharing idle GPU power, Filecoin leverages distributed storage hosted by everyday users and Helium allows users to share unused internet data with the network.
—Ayush Gupta, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
To put the gap in a bit more context, the Switch 2's miniaturized Ampere GPU is rated for 3.072 TFLOPs when docked, versus just 1.71 TFLOPs while undocked.
—ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
The plan is to use the location tracking to tell if an high-end GPU is sold to other locations outside of the original export license.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
The memory unit sits close to a CPU or GPU, to conquer latency and provide high bandwidth with low power consumption.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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Ayush Gupta, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
To put the gap in a bit more context, the Switch 2's miniaturized Ampere GPU is rated for 3.072 TFLOPs when docked, versus just 1.71 TFLOPs while undocked.
—ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
The plan is to use the location tracking to tell if an high-end GPU is sold to other locations outside of the original export license.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 13 May 2025
The memory unit sits close to a CPU or GPU, to conquer latency and provide high bandwidth with low power consumption.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for GPU
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“GPU.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/GPU. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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