1.1.2 - GPUs and Parallel Systems

GPUs are considered a ...

• Processor

• Co-Processor

• Type of memory

• Type of storage

GPUs are ...

• An add onto RAM

• Specialised electronic circuit

• Built into the motherboard or as a separate card

• Non-specialised electronic circuit

GPUs ...

• Are efficient at manipulating computer graphics and image processing

• Can speed up edit render times

• Can decrease render times of programs

• Only manipulate computer graphics

GPUs are built as ...

• The single point of processing power in a PC

• An alternative to using memory

• A sub system of the CPU

• A parallel architecture

GPUs are better than CPUs at ...

• Processing commands such as basic word processing

• Processing lots of smaller more efficient cores to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

• Processing large blocks of visual data simultaneously (in parallel)

• Processing lots of larger blocks of non visual data

Offloading is ...

• When a co-processor is used to accelerate performance

• When a co-processor is used to decelerate performance

• When a single processor is used to accelerate performance

• When a single processor is used to decelerate performance

Users will notice a significant difference in improvement when ...

• GPUs are not integrated into a PC

• GPUs are integrated into a PC

Multi-core processors are now found in ...

• Most modern computers

• Few modern computers

Browsers such as Chrome can run

• No concurrent processes

• 1 concurrent process

• Several concurrent processes

• 100 + concurrent processes

Software need to be _____________ to use the multiple cores

• Degradated

• Optimised

• Analysed

• Ostracized