 Specialized electronic circuit that accelerates graphics |
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a component on a discrete graphics card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles. GPUs are also increasingly being used for artificial intelligence (AI) processing and model training due to linear algebra acceleration, which is also used extensively in graphics processing.
"GPU" redirects here. For other uses, see GPU (disambiguation).
For an expansion card that contains a graphics processing unit, see Graphics card.