OCR A Level Computer Science H446. 1.1.2b) - GPU's

What is the analogy often used to describe the CPU?

• Eyes of the computer

• Heart of the computer

• Lungs of the computer

• Muscle of the computer

What is the purpose of a co-processor in a computer system?

• To execute instructions concurrently with the main CPU

• To slow down the overall speed of the computer

• To reduce the number of cores in the system

• To replace the main CPU

What is the main use of GPUs in computing?

• Running operating systems

• Processing text data

• Managing network connections

• Rendering graphics

What is the main difference in performance characteristics between CPUs and GPUs?

• CPUs and GPUs are equally efficient for all types of tasks

• CPUs and GPUs have similar performance characteristics

• GPUs are faster for complex operations on small data sets

• CPUs are faster for simple operations on large data sets

What type of calculations are GPUs particularly good at performing?

• Arithmetic operations on floating point numbers

• Calculations on matrices and vectors

• Simple operations on small data sets

• Complex numerical calculations

What is the benefit of a GPU's highly specialized design for parallel processing?

• It can process large amounts of text data simultaneously

• It can perform a thousand floating point operations much quicker than a CPU

• It can handle complex operations on small data sets efficiently

• It can perform a single floating point operation quicker than a CPU

What technique was utilized for operations other than handling graphics, leading to the birth of GP-GPU?

• General purpose computing on CPU

• Specialized processing on GPU

• Specialized processing on CPU

• General purpose computing on GPU

Which of the following tasks can be performed very well on GPUs?

• Email communication

• Weather modeling

• Document editing

• Social media management

What is the term used to describe the technique of utilizing GPUs for carrying out thousands of simple calculations on multiple data points?

• Single-threaded processing technique

• Multi-core processing technique

• Sequential processing technique

• Parallel processing technique

Besides graphics, what else can GPUs be used for?

• Video editing

• Audio processing

• All of the above

• 3D modeling