Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word GPU

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Definitions of GPU

1. (computer hardware) Initialism of graphics processing unit ( an electronic circuit dedicated to generating graphics and displaying images).
2. (aviation) Initialism of ground power unit (a ground mobile unit that supplies electrical power to an aircraft while on the ground, without needing to power up the engines or APU).
3. (historical) Initialism of State Political Directorate (Государственное Политическое Управление, Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie). (the Russian secret police until 1934)

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Examples of Using GPU in a Sentence

• Since 2004, AGP was progressively phased out in favor of PCI Express (PCIe), which is serial, as opposed to parallel; by mid-2008, PCI Express cards dominated the market and only a few AGP models were available, with GPU manufacturers and add-in board partners eventually dropping support for the interface in favor of PCI Express.
• Designed as both an arcade system board (Multi Video System; MVS) and home video game console (Advanced Entertainment System; AES), the Neo Geo was marketed as the first 24-bit system; its CPU is actually a 16/32-bit 68000 with an 8-bit Z80 coprocessor, while its GPU chipset has a 24-bit graphics data bus.
• The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering.
• In contrast to the expensive hardware of the unsuccessful Saturn, the Dreamcast was designed to reduce costs with off-the-shelf components, including a Hitachi SH-4 CPU and an NEC PowerVR2 GPU.
• Additionally, in the context of computer graphics performance, FPS is the rate at which a system, particularly a GPU, is able to generate frames, and refresh rate is the frequency at which a display shows completed frames.
• These components almost always include on-chip central processing unit (CPU), memory interfaces, input/output devices and interfaces, and secondary storage interfaces, often alongside other components such as radio modems and a graphics processing unit (GPU) – all on a single substrate or microchip.
• A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.
• AMD APU, marketing term from AMD for a microprocessor that includes a CPU and a GPU within a single chip.
• Heterogeneous(-compute) Interface for Portability, a parallel (GPU) computing platform by AMD and an alternative to CUDA by Nvidia.
• Delta Color Compression, a lossless color compression technique implemented in the graphics core next (GCN) GPU architecture from AMD.
• It would allow the user to upgrade their graphics processing unit via the "GPU Slide Bay", and had an x86-based processor running at 600 MHz, which was later upgraded to a 750 MHz AMD Duron processor, and its GeForce 3 GPU would have been able to process 120-180 million polygons per second.
• No breakdown of OpenCL production by GPU manufacturer exists, as AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel GPUs all support OpenCL.
• At the Institute, Kira meets fellow student Andrei Taganov, an idealistic Communist and an officer in the GPU (the Soviet secret police).
• Llano AMD Fusion (K10 cores + Redwood-class GPU) (launch Q2 2011, this is the first AMD APU) uses Socket FM1.
• No sooner than the Falklands had joined the GPU; an announcement was made that the postage rates would be reduced from 6d per ½ ounce to 4d per ½ ounce.
• The clock generator in a motherboard is often changed by computer enthusiasts to control the speed of a CPU, FSB, GPU or RAM.
• tr =Gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie (GPU) pri narodnom komissariate vnutrennikh del (NKVD) RSFSR – (GPU pri NKVD RSFSR).
• This movement originally began as a grassroots movement among the Russian Orthodox clergy for the reformation of the Church, but was quickly influenced by the support of the Soviet secret services (Cheka, then GPU, NKVD), which had hoped to split and weaken the Russian Church by instigating schismatic movements within it.
• These projects were largely born out of PS3 homebrew operating on the PS3's OtherOS which allowed Linux to be installed, initially with extremely limited GPU access.
• On June 2, 2024, Nvidia announced that their next generation of datacenter accelerators would be named after Vera (CPU) Rubin (GPU).
• Hardware acceleration in a GPU has enabled resources to be used to increase the efficiency and speed of a brute force attack for most hashing algorithms.
• Its NV2A GPU, which is very similar to the GeForce 3 series of desktop GPUs, makes it the only console in its time with traditional vertex and pixel shaders.
• The trend for integrated northbridges began near the end of the 2000sfor example, the Nvidia GeForce 320M GPU in the 2010 MacBook Air was a northbridge/southbridge/GPU combo chip.
• Ada Lovelace (microarchitecture), a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia.
• Sneevliet had informed Victor Serge that Reiss, a leading GPU official in the Netherlands was "heartbroken" by the Zinoviev Trial and had crossed over to the anti-Stalinist Opposition.

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