Hardware Software Dissection

Memory long-term Arms

The "Brain" of the Computer

The Spine of the Processor

The Legs of the Power

Hundreds of thousands

Millions

Billions

Trillions

To store temporary data for the CPU

To manage network connections

To convert and supply the correct voltage to the CPU

To control the speed of cooling fans

PCB

Stator

Barrier

Magnetic Rotor

Yes

No

6.9 billion transistors, organized into 20 graphics processing clusters and 6 streaming multiprocessors.

11.8 billion transistors, organized into 6 graphics processing clusters and 28 streaming multiprocessors.

11.8 billion transistors, organized into 28 graphics processing clusters and 6 streaming multiprocessors.

6.9 billion transistors, organized into 6 graphics processing clusters and 20 streaming multiprocessors.

GPUs have fewer, more complex cores, while CPUs have many basic cores.

GPUs have thousands of basic cores, while CPUs have a handful of more complex cores.

Both GPUs and CPUs have a similar number of complex cores.

GPUs and CPUs both have thousands of basic cores.

A CPU has significantly more cores than a GPU.

A GPU has significantly more cores than a CPU.

Both GPUs and CPUs typically have a similar number of cores.

Cores are not a relevant metric for comparing GPUs and CPUs.

A DRAM chip is approximately 3000 times slower than an SSD chip.

An SSD chip is approximately 3000 times slower than a DRAM chip.

Both DRAM and SSD chips have similar data access speeds.

DRAM chips are used for permanent storage, while SSDs are for temporary data.

HDDs are faster but more expensive per terabyte than SSDs.

SSDs are slower but cheaper per terabyte than HDDs.

HDDs are slower but cheaper per terabyte than SSDs.

SSDs are faster and cheaper per terabyte than HDDs.