Graphics processing unit | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 20/12/2018

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00:01:18 1 History
00:01:27 1.1 1970s
00:03:11 1.2 1980s
00:05:42 1.3 1990s
00:11:42 1.4 2000 to 2010
00:15:16 1.5 2010 to present
00:18:42 1.6 GPU companies
00:19:41 2 Computational functions
00:21:39 2.1 GPU accelerated video decoding
00:23:20 2.1.1 Video decoding processes that can be accelerated
00:24:20 3 GPU forms
00:24:30 3.1 Terminology
00:24:59 3.1.1 Usage specific GPU
00:26:04 3.2 Dedicated graphics cards
00:27:52 3.3 Integrated graphics
00:29:54 3.4 Hybrid graphics processing
00:30:45 3.5 Stream processing and general purpose GPUs (GPGPU)
00:34:53 3.6 External GPU (eGPU)
00:36:37 4 Sales
00:36:56 5 See also
00:37:05 5.1 Hardware
00:37:51 5.2 APIs
00:37:59 5.3 Applications



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A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles. Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating computer graphics and image processing. Their highly parallel structure makes them more efficient than general-purpose CPUs for algorithms that process large blocks of data in parallel. In a personal computer, a GPU can be present on a video card or embedded on the motherboard. In certain CPUs, they are embedded on the CPU die.The term GPU has been used from at least the 1980s, it was popularized by Nvidia in 1999, who marketed the GeForce 256 as "the world's first GPU". It was presented as a "single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines". Rival ATI Technologies coined the term "visual processing unit" or VPU with the release of the Radeon 9700 in 2002.