Graphics processing units have evolved beyond pure graphics accelerators with the addition of general purpose programmable floating point units applicable to gpgpu, differing from the CPU in being massively parallel processors optimized for data-parallel throughput instead of rapid individual-instructions of low latency.
Graphics processing units have evolved beyond pure graphics accelerators with the addition of general purpose programmable floating point units applicable to general purpose computing. They differ from most CPUs in being massively parallel processors optimized for data-parallel throughput instead of rapid individual-instructions of low latency.