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ELI5: Why graphic card's processors are faster than the "normal"?

If it's faster then why wouldn't we have a CPU that is at least as fast as the graphic card's one

EDIT: sorry I couldn't write "than the machine's normal CPU" in the title:(
gpt
GPUs can only carry out very simple instructions.... but they often have thousands of cores, meaning they are very good at the type of calculations where it's possible to break it down into thousands of simple sub-parts and work on them all at the same time - this is known as "parallel" processing.

This makes them very good at certain types of problem, chiefly at drawing things (although there are other problems that can be solved with GPUs too).

But most problems require a much wider range of capabilities than a GPU has, and aren't suitable for doing in parallel. That's the kind of thing CPUs are good at.