The “brain” of most computers is a chip called a central processing unit (CPU). CPUs can be used to generate graphical scenes and decompress videos, but they are typically far slower and less ...

How a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Works The graphics in videos and g 1 s consist of polygonal coordinates that are converted into bitmap 2 s—a process 2 called “rendering”—and then into ...

The term "graphical processing unit" dates back to the late '90s as a marketing term. Speaking of the late '90s, development of 3D APIs split during this time between OpenGL, and Microsoft's DirectX.