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ELI5: Why are high powered graphics cards needed in cryto mining?

The reason that I am having problems understanding this is because when I imagine crypto mining, I imagine basically an infinite command prompt constantly running. In my uneducated mind I don’t seeing this as a graphics drain I see it as taxing the gpu and ram. I am below beginner in my knowledge of computers. Thanks in advance!
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>I see it as taxing the gpu and ram

Assuming you meant cpu here.

The thing to understand here is that computing graphics involves doing loads and loads of the same set of relatively limited calculations. GPUs are optimized for this in their architecture. Think of it as wanting to solve a million simple math problems -- who would complete the total workload faster, a decorated maths professor or several classrooms worth of high schoolers? The high school students win, because despite being less versatile their sheer parallel capacity gives them the edge. That's the CPU and GPU respectively. 

It just so happens that crypto also involves loads and loads of the same calculations, so GPUs are very well suited for it.