When a videogame wants to show a scene, it sends the GPU a list of objects described using triangles (most 3D models are broken down into triangles). The GPU then runs a sequence called a rendering ...

CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. It is the brain of a computer because it handles all the tasks that a user performs on his/her computer. All the arithmetic and logical calculations required to ...

This article is part of the Electronics History series: The Graphics Chip Chronicles. The term "GPU" has been in use since at least the 1980s. Nvidia popularized it in 1999 by marketing the GeForce ...