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Graphics Processor (GPU)
Chips built for video games perform thousands of operations at once, and later become the engine of the AI boom.
Open in the interactive tree →In 1999 Nvidia marketed the GeForce 256 as the first “GPU”. With CUDA (2007) these parallel processors became usable for general computing. Training and running neural networks consists of huge matrix multiplications that fit them perfectly; AlexNet was trained in 2012 on two gaming graphics cards.
Prerequisites
- Linear Perspective~14203D graphics pipelines project scenes with perspective geometry
- Integrated Circuit1958-1959
- Video Games1972GPUs were created to meet demand for game graphics
- Personal Computer1981