Graphics Processing Unit
A Graphics Processing Unit or GPU is the microprocessor of a graphics card (or graphics accelerator). Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating and displaying graphics.
NVIDIA Corporation coined the term around 1999 to describe its GeForce range of graphics chips, based on the abbreviation "CPU" for a computer's central processor. However, Sony may have used the term in 1994 to describe the graphics hardware inside its PlayStation game console.
GPU manufacturers
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