Graphics Processing Unit. A specialized electronic circuit that utilizes a highly parallelized structure and high speed memory to rapidly process rendering and manipulating graphical images, heavily employed in the gaming industry and scientific research for processing large datasets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Graphics Processing Unit. A specialized electronic circuit that utilizes a highly parallelized structure and high speed memory to rapidly process rendering and manipulating graphical images, heavily employed in the gaming industry and scientific research for processing large datasets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cryptoslate_glossary_part_of_speech":"initialism","_cryptoslate_glossary_phonetic_spelling":"G-P-U","_cryptoslate_glossary_example_sentences":["The miner used a GPU to perform many hashing calculations in parallel.","A GPU contains specialized hardware suited to highly parallel workloads.","The workstation\u2019s GPU accelerated both graphics rendering and data analysis.","Mining demand once pushed up prices for high-performance GPUs.","The operator compared each GPU\u2019s hash rate, memory, and power consumption."]},"glossary_topic":[83435,83437],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n