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      1 year ago

      GPUs are great for parallel tasks. Computing answers requires a lot of parallel tasks. CPUs are amazing for doing one thing at a time.

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      They have a lot of fast memory and are great at doing things in parallel. Most AI are just operations on matrixes, which essentially is what a GPU is built for.