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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
Graphics_processing_unit
units (GPUs) and video cards from Nvidia, based on official specifications. In addition some Nvidia motherboards come with integrated onboard GPUs.
List of Nvidia graphics processing units
List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Ampere is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to both the Volta and Turing architectures
Ampere_(microarchitecture)
Web standard and API
WebGPU API is a JavaScript, Rust, C++, and C API for cross-platform efficient graphics processing unit (GPU) access. Using a system's underlying Vulkan
WebGPU
The following is a list that contains general information about GPUs, and other video cards, made by AMD, including those made by ATI Technologies before
List of AMD graphics processing units
List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
GPU microarchitecture designed by Nvidia
Hopper is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is designed for datacenters and is used alongside the Lovelace microarchitecture
Hopper_(microarchitecture)
Windows utility software
TechPowerUp GPU-Z (or just GPU-Z) is a lightweight utility designed to provide information about video cards and GPUs. The program displays the specifications
GPU-Z
Brand of GPUs by Nvidia
GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia and marketed for the performance market. As of the GeForce 50 series, there have
GeForce
GPU mining of cryptocurrencies
GPU mining is the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to "mine" proof-of-work cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin. Miners receive rewards for performing
GPU_mining
American multinational technology company
Santa Clara, California. The company develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoCs), and application programming interfaces (APIs)
Nvidia
Computer clusters with graphics processing units
A GPU cluster is a computer cluster in which each node is equipped with a graphics processing unit (GPU). By harnessing the computational power of modern
GPU_cluster
Use of a GPU for computations typically assigned to CPUs
units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units
General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units
Technology that allows a GPU to be used by multiple virtual machines
GPU virtualization refers to technologies that allow the use of a GPU to accelerate graphics or GPGPU applications running on a virtual machine. GPU virtualization
GPU_virtualization
Series of graphics processing units produced by ARM Holdings
The Mali and Immortalis series of graphics processing units (GPUs) and multimedia processors are semiconductor intellectual property cores produced by
Mali_(processor)
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up GPU in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. GPU, or graphics processing unit, is a specialized electronic circuit that accelerates graphics. GPU may also
GPU_(disambiguation)
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
pre-rendered on an "unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU". This was assumed to be an upcoming GeForce RTX 50 series GPU. Following the RTX 50 series announcement
GeForce_RTX_50_series
Expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display device
accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, or display adapter GPU, is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to
Graphics_card
Line of Nvidia produced servers and workstations
The Nvidia DGX (Deep GPU Xceleration) is a series of servers and workstations designed by Nvidia, primarily geared towards enhancing deep learning applications
Nvidia_DGX
"AMD Hawk Point GPU Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database". TechPowerUp. Retrieved 2025-10-16. "AMD Rembrandt+ GPU Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database". TechPowerUp
List_of_AMD_Ryzen_processors
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
5-core GPU iPhone 16 Plus – 5-core GPU iPhone 16e – 4-core GPU iPhone 16 Pro – 6-core GPU iPhone 16 Pro Max – 6-core GPU MacBook Neo – 5-core GPU Apple
Apple_A18
Parallel computing platform and programming model
that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for accelerated general-purpose processing, significantly broadening their
CUDA
Computer programming language
In computing, the Brook programming language and its implementation BrookGPU were early and influential attempts to enable general-purpose computing on
BrookGPU
Nvidia's line of general purpose GPUs
after pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. Its products began using GPUs from the G80 series, and have continued to accompany the release of new chips
Nvidia_Tesla
This article contains information about Intel's GPUs (see Intel Graphics Technology) and motherboard graphics chipsets in table form. In 1982, Intel licensed
List of Intel graphics processing units
List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units
System-on-a-chip series designed by Apple Inc.
chip integrates a central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), neural processing unit (NPU), and unified memory on a single package. The
Apple_M5
Semi-annual technology conference held by Nvidia
Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) is a global artificial intelligence (AI) conference for developers that brings together developers, engineers,
Nvidia_GTC
Intel GPU architecture
unofficially as Gen12, is a GPU architecture developed by Intel. Intel Xe includes a new instruction set architecture. The Xe GPU family consists of a series
Intel_Xe
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
series, as a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) for its Mac desktops and notebooks and the iPad Air tablets. Released in
Apple_M3
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple
series, as a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) for its Mac desktops and notebooks, the iPad Pro and iPad Air tablets, and
Apple_M2
GPU overclocking and monitoring software
ASUS GPU Tweak is an overclocking and monitoring utility software for GPUs, developed by ASUS. ASUS GPU Teak is designed to help get the most out of ASUS
ASUS_GPU_Tweak
GPU microarchitecture by AMD
RDNA 3 is a GPU microarchitecture designed by AMD, released with the Radeon RX 7000 series on December 13, 2022. Alongside powering the RX 7000 series
RDNA_3
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
(GPUs) in Nvidia's GeForce line of graphics cards, succeeding the GeForce RTX 30 series. The series was announced on September 20, 2022, at the GPU Technology
GeForce_RTX_40_series
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
The GeForce 10 series is a series of graphics processing units (GPUs) developed by Nvidia, initially based on the Pascal microarchitecture announced in
GeForce_10_series
Sixth-generation video game console by Sony
backward compatibility with the PlayStation. The system has 32 MB of RDRAM. The GPU is likewise custom-designed for the console, named the "Graphics Synthesizer"
PlayStation_2
Nvidia microarchitecture
Feynman is a microarchitecture for GPUs by Nvidia announced at Nvidia GTC in 2025 by CEO Jensen Huang. It is named after theoretical physicist Richard
Feynman_(microarchitecture)
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
compared to 3.5 on GK110/GK208 GPUs and 3.0 on GK10x GPUs. Dynamic Parallelism and HyperQ, two features in GK110/GK208 GPUs, are also supported across the
GeForce_900_series
Nvidia microarchitecture
Rubin is a microarchitecture for graphics processing units (GPUs) by Nvidia. Announced at Computex in Taipei in 2024 by CEO Jensen Huang, it is named after
Rubin_(microarchitecture)
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
uses the A19 with a 4-core GPU, unlike the iPhone 17 which has a 5-core GPU. The iPhone Air uses the A19 Pro with a 5-core GPU, while the iPhone 17 Pro
Apple_A19
Home video game console by Sony
PlayStation 5 Pro model was released on November 7, 2024, featuring a faster GPU, improved ray tracing, and introducing an AI-driven upscaling technology
PlayStation_5
System-on-chip processors designed by Apple Inc.
SIMD extension, marketed as NEON, and a dual core PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU. This GPU can push between 70 and 80 million polygons/second and has a pixel fill
Apple_silicon
American multinational semiconductor company
It develops central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), system-on-chips (SoCs), and high-performance
AMD
iOS, macOS, and tvOS graphics rendering API
It is intended to improve performance by offering low-level access to the GPU hardware for apps on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and visionOS (though not watchOS)
Metal_(API)
This is a list of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures. The eponym in this case is the person after whom an architecture is named. Listed are the
List of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures
List_of_eponyms_of_Nvidia_GPU_microarchitectures
System on a chip by Nvidia
ARM architecture central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), northbridge, southbridge, and memory controller onto one package. Early
Tegra
Graphics processing unit brand
units (GPUs) developed by Intel, representing the company's line of discrete GPUs for gaming, content creation, and professional applications. Arc GPUs are
Intel_Arc
GPU microarchitecture designed by Nvidia
Blackwell is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Hopper and Ada Lovelace microarchitectures
Blackwell_(microarchitecture)
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Turing is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is named after the prominent mathematician and computer
Turing_(microarchitecture)
1935 book by Francišak Aljachnovič
In the Claws of the GPU (Belarusian: У капцюрох ГПУ, romanized: U kapciuroch HPU; Polish: Siedem lat w szponach GPU) is an early book-length eyewitness
In_the_Claws_of_the_GPU
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Kepler is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, first introduced at retail in April 2012, as the successor to the Fermi microarchitecture
Kepler_(microarchitecture)
Type of dedicated computer memory
to be read quickly for display on a screen. Many modern GPUs rely on VRAM. In contrast, a GPU that does not use VRAM, and relies instead on system RAM
Video_random-access_memory
Series of integrated graphics processors
designed by Intel and manufactured by Intel and under contract by TSMC. These GPUs are built into the same chip as the central processing unit (CPU) and are
Intel_Graphics_Technology
Parallel computing platform: GPGPU libraries and application programming interface
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) software stack for graphics processing unit (GPU) programming. ROCm spans several domains, including general-purpose computing
ROCm
Brand name by AMD; multi-GPU technology
brand name for the multi-GPU technology by AMD, originally developed by ATI Technologies. The technology allows up to four GPUs to be used in a single computer
AMD_CrossFire
High-speed chip interconnect
control code transfers in processor systems between CPUs and GPUs and between GPUs and GPUs. NVLink specifies a point-to-point connection with data rates
NVLink
Chinese fabless semiconductor company
(Chinese: 摩尔线程) is a Chinese company specializing in graphics processing unit (GPU) design. The company was founded in October 2020 by Zhang Jianzhong, former
Moore_Threads
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
The GeForce RTX 30 series is a suite of graphics processing units (GPUs) developed by Nvidia, succeeding the GeForce RTX 20 series. The GeForce RTX 30
GeForce_RTX_30_series
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
including a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), a neural processing unit (NPU), and a digital signal processor (DSP). The
Apple_M4
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Pascal is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, as the successor to the Maxwell architecture. The architecture was first introduced
Pascal_(microarchitecture)
Graphics card monitoring utility
per second, temperatures, GPU and CPU usage, etc. MSI Afterburner is compatible with Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs, including iGPUs. MSI Afterburner first released
MSI_Afterburner
Brand of Nvidia graphics cards used in workstations
GeForce lines in that the Quadro cards included the use of ECC memory, larger GPU cache, and enhanced floating point precision. These are desirable properties
Quadro
Series of microprocessors by AMD
with the aim of developing a system on a chip that combined a CPU with a GPU on a single die. This effort was moved forward by AMD's acquisition of graphics
AMD_APU
Subsystem of the Linux kernel
interfacing with GPUs of modern video cards. DRM exposes an API that user-space programs can use to send commands and data to the GPU and perform operations
Direct_Rendering_Manager
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Lovelace, also referred to simply as Lovelace, is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to the Ampere architecture
Ada Lovelace (microarchitecture)
Ada_Lovelace_(microarchitecture)
Using graphics processing units for molecular simulations
Molecular modeling on GPU is the technique of using a graphics processing unit (GPU) for molecular simulations. In 2007, Nvidia introduced video cards
Molecular_modeling_on_GPUs
Technology company in Hong Kong
players and LCDTVs Founded in 2001, Sapphire's products are based on ATI/AMD GPUs, and both ATI/AMD and Intel motherboard chipset technology. The company is
Sapphire_Technology
American political party
The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green state political parties in the United States. The party promotes green politics, specifically
Green Party of the United States
Green_Party_of_the_United_States
Shading language for WebGPU
WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL, internet media type: text/wgsl) is a high-level shading language and the normative shader language for the WebGPU API on
WebGPU_Shading_Language
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
a unified clock. By abandoning the shader clock found in their previous GPU designs, efficiency is increased, even though it requires more cores to achieve
GeForce_600_series
Series of video cards
These GPUs are based on the Graphics Core Next (GCN) microarchitecture, and are produced with TSMC's 28 nm process. The series introduces two new GPUs, "Tonga"
Radeon_300_series
Taiwanese and American businessman (born 1963)
company out of near-bankruptcy during the 1990s and oversaw its expansion into GPU production, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence (AI)
Jensen_Huang
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
6-core CPU and 4-core GPU iPhone 13 Pro & 13 Pro Max – 6-core CPU and 5-core GPU iPhone SE (3rd generation) – 6-core CPU and 4-core GPU iPhone 14 and 14 Plus
Apple_A15
microprocessors designed by AMD containing a 3D integrated graphics processing unit (iGPU), including those under the AMD APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) product
List of AMD processors with 3D graphics
List_of_AMD_processors_with_3D_graphics
Mechanism for computers with multiple graphic controllers
GPU switching is a mechanism used on computers with multiple graphic controllers. This mechanism allows the user to either maximize the graphic performance
GPU_switching
Arm-based system-on-chip by Nvidia
2026, RTX Spark combines a 20-core Nvidia Grace CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU and unified memory, and is intended for local artificial intelligence, creative
Nvidia_RTX_Spark
Intelligence of machines
interest increased substantially after 2012, when graphics processing units (GPUs) started being used to accelerate neural networks, and deep learning outperformed
Artificial_intelligence
GPU microarchitecture and accompanying instruction set architecture
RDNA (Radeon DNA) is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture and accompanying instruction set architecture developed by AMD. It is the successor
RDNA_(microarchitecture)
Cross-platform 3D graphics API and open standard
OpenGL, and allow developers more control over the GPU. It is designed to support a wide variety of GPUs, CPUs and operating systems, and modern multi-core
Vulkan
Type of middleware software framework for remote GPU virtualization
GPU virtualization. Fully compatible with the CUDA application programming interface (API), it allows the allocation of one or more CUDA-enabled GPUs
RCUDA
Series of microarchitectures and instruction set architecture by AMD
microarchitectures and an instruction set architecture that were developed by AMD for its GPUs as the successor to its TeraScale microarchitecture. The first product featuring
Graphics_Core_Next
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
entry-level iPhone models with 5-core GPU), A16 Bionic (exclusively on the standard iPhone models with 5-core GPU) and the A17 Pro (exclusively on the
Apple_A17_Pro
Series of GPUs by Nvidia
describing the chip as "the most significant generational upgrade to its GPUs since the first CUDA cores in 2006," according to PC Gamer. After the initial
GeForce_RTX_20_series
GPU by Nvidia
7-compliant 3D accelerator. GeForce 256 was marketed as "the world's first 'GPU', or Graphics Processing Unit", a term Nvidia defined at the time as "a single-chip
GeForce_256
Type of memory used on processors that require high transfer rate memory
Hynix in 2013, and the first devices shipped with HBM were the AMD Fiji GPUs in 2015. HBM was adopted by JEDEC as an industry standard in October 2013
High_Bandwidth_Memory
Series of graphics processing units
(formerly ATI Mobile Graphics) is a series of graphics processing unit (GPU) semiconductor intellectual property cores developed by Qualcomm and used
Adreno
Computer GPU switching technology created by Nvidia
Nvidia Optimus is a computer GPU switching technology created by Nvidia which, depending on the resource load generated by client software applications
Nvidia_Optimus
Feature in Nvidia graphics cards
is a successor of PureVideo and is available in Kepler and later Nvidia GPUs. It is accompanied by NVENC for video encoding in Nvidia's Video Codec SDK
NVDEC
AMD graphics processing units
enhanced streaming capabilities No dedicated multi-GPU or NVLink equivalent support (focus on single GPU scalability) Double-precision (FP64) performance
Radeon_RX_9000_series
Series of systems-on-a-chip designed by Apple
series, as a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU), used for its Mac desktops and notebooks and iPad Pro and iPad Air tablets
Apple_M1
Intel microprocessor series released in 2026
that doesn't support DDR5. There are also smaller GPU tiles which have up to 4 Xe cores, and larger GPU tiles which have up to 12 Xe tiles. The latter being
Panther_Lake_(microprocessor)
American supercomputer
per GPU, which have a total of 639,246 stream processors, 14,592 per GPU). The MI300A consists of 24 Zen4-based CPU cores and a CDNA3-based GPU integrated
El_Capitan_(supercomputer)
Chinese GPU company
processing units (GPUs). Lisuan Tech was founded in 2021 by three former employees of S3 Graphics. The company aimed to set out to develop GPUs that could compete
Lisuan_Tech
Brand name; multi-GPU technology by Nvidia
Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is the brand name for a now discontinued multi-GPU technology developed by Nvidia for linking two or more video cards together
Scalable_Link_Interface
Number of transistors in a device
GPU". www.techpowerup.com. Retrieved February 5, 2020. "AMD PlayStation 4 GPU". www.techpowerup.com. Retrieved February 5, 2020. "AMD Xbox One S GPU"
Transistor_count
Influential 2012 deep convolutional neural network
but made feasible due to the utilization of graphics processing units (GPUs) during training. The three formed team SuperVision and submitted AlexNet
AlexNet
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Tesla is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2006, as the successor to Curie microarchitecture. It was named
Tesla_(microarchitecture)
Series of video cards
The Radeon HD 7000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands", is a family of GPUs developed by AMD, and manufactured on TSMC's 28 nm process. The primary competitor
Radeon_HD_7000_series
GPU microarchitecture by AMD released in 2020
RDNA 2 is a GPU microarchitecture designed by AMD, released with the Radeon RX 6000 series on November 18, 2020. Alongside powering the RX 6000 series
RDNA_2
High-performance computing socket
are SXM for Pascal based GPUs, SXM2 and SXM3 for Volta based GPUs, SXM4 for Ampere based GPUs, and SXM5 for Hopper based GPUs. These sockets are used for
SXM_(socket)
Hardware acceleration unit for artificial intelligence tasks
used as part of a GPU for graphics rendering, they can significantly reduce resource use by allowing the traditional parts of the GPU to render a scene
Neural_processing_unit
GPU microarchitecture by Nvidia
Volta is the codename, but not the trademark, for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, succeeding Pascal. It was first announced on a roadmap
Volta_(microarchitecture)
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Computer Chemistry Center
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Friends of Jefferson House
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Florida Tropical Weavers Guild
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Healthcare Equality Index
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