Advanced Python Programming

Graphic processing units

Graphic processing units are special processors designed for computer graphics applications. Those applications usually require processing the geometry of a 3D scene and output an array of pixel to the screen. The operations performed by GPUs involve array and matrix operations on floating point numbers.

GPUs are designed to run this graphics-related operation very efficiently, and they achieve this by adopting a highly parallel architecture. Compared to a CPU, a GPU has many more (thousands) of small processing units. GPUs are intended to produce data at about 60 frames per second, which is much slower than the typical response time of a CPU, which possesses higher clock speeds.

GPUs possess a very different architecture ...