What is a gpu

[EDevil]

Quite simple. I've seen peeps with only a screen hooked up, and screaming that they've build themselves a gpu. Personally, i think this is just a bunch of bullshit. I can hook up a screen to my cpu as well, and then it becomes a gpu?!? I would describe it more as an output device, rather a fully gpu. But when is a gpu a gpu?

[xdot]

When it provides hardware-accelerated graphics. For instance, (hollow) box rendering on a typical minecraft GPU is extremely fast because everything is done in parallel.

[Xray_Doc]

Can you move this to tutorials?

[Iceglade]

This argument directly applies to me, as you all know. I would like to know whether my thing is a screen or GPU. Just to clear things up.

[Xeomorpher]

let us agree that all gpus are silly and floppy

[seankingman]

I disagree.

[Chibill]

I GPU is a thing that makes drawing complex stuff to a screen ez it lets you just say draw a box thus big here and the GPU does but a GPU can also just be a special thing inbetween a screen and a cpu that makes using the screen faster or ez.

[EDevil]

When it provides hardware-accelerated graphics. For instance, (hollow) box rendering on a typical minecraft GPU is extremely fast because everything is done in parallel.

I GPU is a thing that makes drawing complex stuff to a screen ez it lets you just say draw a box thus big here and the GPU does but a GPU can also just be a special thing inbetween a screen and a cpu that makes using the screen faster or ez.

I think those are beautiful explanations. Thanks guys.

[Chibill]

We can work together on making a single post in the tutorials section on GPUs