GPU vs Graphics Card - What Is The Difference? [Simple Guide] 

tldw: GPU is the chip, graphics card is the entire thing with cooling etc.

For 90% of PC users the term GPU and Graphics Card are synonymous referring to the graphics processor installed in the computer.

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Huh, didn't know there was a difference. Well, thanks!

I didn't even know there was a difference I thought they where different words for the same thing

Easiest thing here,. A GPU or Graphics Processing Unit is much like a CPU (central processing unit), but more fixed for tasks that are more about literally processing graphics or workloads switched on to do GPGPU or General Purpose GPU processing (this is a term that came up with the rise of things like Nvidia's CUDA and OpenCL). A GPU can be included on the motherboard itself as an embedded solution (much like they are on laptops) or you can even see something like an integrated GPU built into a CPU as a separate "core" of sorts. A graphics card on the other hand is a card that interfaces with the current "bus" standard that is being used for display (in this case PCI-Express 3.0/4.0 are where we are at). This card is made up of that interface on a PCB (printed circuit board) along with your display outs on the back where a GPU, memory, capacitors, and everything else it needs sits on as well as the cooling solution be it passive (no fans, but a heatsink on it and relying on the chassis fans or natural airflow into the case to cool), or a more active solution where you see fans on a shroud over top of the heatsink plus the stuff to power it. The two terms have become sort of synonymous because people are more interested in the GPU than the actual card itself as the card itself is basically your interface to plug in your display, power it all, have it interface with your computer, and get your cooling solution or factory overclocking in. You become interested in the 3090 GPU and then shop for what cooling solution, what overclocked version, etc best fits your needs.

Ahhhh that makes a lot more sense thanks for explaining this

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Will there be a video about motherboards and best ram to pick?

can you make a video on the difference between the GPU in laptop and desktop?

just the explanation I needed, thanks

I wanted this video for a while

I'm planning buy a laptop for Edit photos which is better Oled or iPS with graphic card??

which is better?? Oled Display Vs 1650 GTX? or 3050 vs Oled..

thankyou for this video

do u need both gpu and graphics cards in a pc or is just a graphics card fine

Excellent explanation ❤

For Bitcoin mining what would you recommend a GPU or Graphics card?

What if I add gpu and graphics cards together?

So does a graphics cars have a GPU in it as well as other stuff So I should just get a graphics card?

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Will a Graphics Card help with video editing?

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So the graphics card is the mother board for the gpu?

Hmm... AI isn't handled by CPU, esp. nowadays when we've moved away from Decision trees and such.

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I’m trying to build a pc and then I come up on this video and panicked but then she said the graphics card is the whole thing

Most of us: "What GPU and Graphics Card is not the same term?"

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Guys is a i3 10th gen with q nividia 4gb graphics card better or a i5 10th gen with no graphics card?

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This explanation is pretty good for ordinary users, but not exactly correct. In the past, not all chips on a video card were considered GPUs. In fact, the term GPU is relatively recent. The first ever chip to use the term GPU was the GeForce 256 from 1999. No graphics chip that came before it had been marketed as a GPU.

i am analysing that about GPU in mobile phone.

Hello currently I can mine crypto currency $0.01 / day with only CPU. If I use GPU can I increase earning? How much? Average

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This video is wrong ,for the longest time integrated graphics was on the motherboard not the CPU. You can swap motherboards and have different gpus and the same cpu .not all CPUs have GPU on die. An Apu is a cpu with on die GPU(graphics)

same thing...

Is Ssd and sd card same?

Understood from looking at the thumbnail

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so a gpu is in a graphics card

i watch all of this and play on BlueStacks

I always say graphics cards . never thought of gpu lol .

Their will be an Intel GPU soon: Intel ARC

Bit of a nitpick, but GPU is merely an initialism and not an acronym.

Then why people say GPU

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GAMERS: GPU IS GPU

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in laptops we can say we have GPU because there is no fans for it lmao

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