WHAT IS GPU COMPUTING?

GPU-accelerated computing is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU) together with a CPU to accelerate scientific, engineering, and enterprise applications. Pioneered in 2007 by NVIDIA, GPUs now power energy-efficient datacenters in government labs, universities, enterprises, and small-and-medium businesses around the world.

How Applications Accelerate with GPUs

GPU-accelerated computing offers unprecedented application performance by offloading compute-intensive portions of the application to the GPU, while the remainder of the code still runs on the CPU. From a user's perspective, applications simply run significantly faster.

CPU VERSUS GPU

A simple way to understand the difference between a CPU and GPU is to compare how they process tasks. A CPU consists of a few cores optimized for sequential serial processing while a GPU consists of thousands of smaller, more efficient cores designed for handling multiple tasks simultaneously.

GPUs have thousands of cores to process parallel workloads efficiently

Hundreds of industry-leading applications are already GPU-accelerated. Find out if the applications you use are GPU-accelerated by looking in our application catalog.