Definition

GPU

initialism G-P-U

Graphics Processing Unit. A specialized electronic circuit that utilizes a highly parallelized structure and high speed memory to rapidly process rendering and manipulating graphical images, heavily employed in the gaming industry and scientific research for processing large datasets.

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The miner used a GPU to perform many hashing calculations in parallel.

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