Technical Terms - Hardware (A-Z) - GPU

What does GPU stand for?

• General Processing Unit

• Global Processing Unit

• Graphics Processing Unit

• Gaming Processing Unit

When was the first commercially available GPU introduced for a desktop computer?

• September 10, 1998

• July 15, 2000

• August 31, 1999

• June 5, 2001

What is the primary purpose of a GPU?

• Rendering 3D graphics

• Handling audio operations

• Running operating systems

• Processing text data

What technology allows developers to utilize the GPU for non-graphics computations?

• AGP

• OpenGL

• Direct3D

• OpenCL

What type of operations are GPUs designed to perform?

• Integer calculations

• String manipulations

• Boolean operations

• Floating point operations

What made modern gaming possible by offloading graphics processing?

• Dedicated sound cards

• Fast CPUs

• High-powered GPUs

• Large RAM capacity

Which company introduced the first commercially available GPU for a desktop computer?

• Qualcomm

• Intel

• AMD

• NVIDIA

What is GPGPU?

• Global Processing General Unit

• Graphics Processing Graphics Unit

• General Processing Graphics Unit

• General-purpose computation on graphics processing units

What is the purpose of technologies like OpenCL and CUDA?

• Utilize the GPU to assist the CPU in non-graphics computations

• Enhance CPU performance

• Improve GPU rendering speed

• Optimize RAM usage

What type of graphics do GPUs primarily excel at rendering?

• Vector graphics

• Raster graphics

• 3D graphics

• 2D graphics