The first thing anyone who is looking to get into a PC building needs to know is that there is a lot of technical jargon involved. And for those who are new to PC building stuff, there are lots of confusing terms and acronyms to get baffled in no time. For newcomers, it's hard to distinguish between CPU/SoC and Processor, Motherboard and PCB, CPU and GPU.
So we're going to talk about the most notable example of this that we've come across. Which has to do with GPUs and Graphic Cards. These two terms get used interchangeably quite often but they are not the same so let's see where is the difference lies.
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What is the difference GPU and Graphics Card
WHAT IS A GPU
The term GPU stands for Graphics Processing Unit. It's basically a chip (processor) that's designed to do graphics processing as the name suggests. It's a specially designed chip that does all the heavy lifting. It performs all the calculations necessary to render videos, graphics and display the image onto the monitor. It's specially designed to perform all the rendering tasks itself when it comes to computing. It is made up of several thousands of small cores and instruction sets within them.
WHAT IS A GRAPHICS CARD
Now, this term is a whole different thing from GPUs. The graphics card is a separate hardware unit for PCs/Desktops that comprises a lot of other things besides GPU that is its own RAM which is called video memory, heat sinks, connectors for connecting displays and motherboard, and their own cooling systems. Thus making it a whole separate hardware unit that actually responsible for graphics processing and rendering.
SO, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GPU AND A GRAPHICS CARD?
The main difference between a Graphics card and a GPU is that the term GPU is nothing but an especially designed chip with its own small cores and instructions set inside it, which is currently manufactured by two companies in the world "Nvidia" and "AMD", while graphics card indicates the final outcome hardware unit after adding cooling systems, connectors, video ram to the GPU itself which are manufactured by companies like MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, Zotac, Inno3D, and others.
CONCLUSION
So, this is all about the difference between GPU and Graphic Cards. I hope you liked it and if you found it useful then do let me know in the comment section below and share it with your family and friends. And also if you have any questions related to this then tell me in the comment box and I'll try to answer them all. See you next time with another interesting article till then bye.
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