If you are a PC gamer, you must be very familiar with the world of graphics cards. Depending on their specifications, you might also be familiar with how each of them would affect your gaming experience. Let's explore extensively what lies beyond that domain through the subsequent sections in this chapter.
The world of GPU computing beyond PC gaming
What is a GPU?
A GPU, as the initialism suggests, is an electronic circuit that serves as a processor for handling graphical information to output on a display. The scope of this book is to go beyond just handling graphical information and stepping into the general purpose computing with GPUs (GPGPU) arena. GPGPU is all about the use of what is typically performed with central...
