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-as of [30 SEPTEMBER 2024]–
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*occasionally called visual processing unit (VPU)*
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-a graphics processing unit (GPU) is a ‘specialized electronic circuit’ designed to rapidly ‘manipulate’ + ‘alter’ memory to accelerate the creation of ‘images’ in a ‘frame buffer’ intended for output to a ‘display’-
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(GPUs are used in…)
’embedded systems’
‘mobile phones’
‘personal computers’
‘workstations’
‘game consoles’
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(modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating ‘computer graphics’ + ‘image processing’, and their ‘highly parallel structure’ makes them more efficient than ‘general-purpose CPUs’ for ‘algorithms’ where the processing of ‘large blocks of data’ is done ‘in parallel’)
(in a ‘personal computer’, a ‘GPU’ can be present on a ‘video card’, or it can be embedded on the ‘motherboard’ or—in certain CPUs—on the ‘CPU die’)
(the term ‘GPU’ was popularized by ‘nvidia’ in ‘1999’, who marketed the ‘GeForce 256’ as “the world’s first GPU” (or ‘graphics processing unit’))
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(it was presented as a ‘single-chip processor’ with…)
‘integrated transform’
‘lighting’
‘triangle setup / clipping’
‘rendering engines’
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(rival ‘ATI technologies’ coined the term ‘visual processing unit’ (or ‘VPU’) with the release of the ‘radeon 9700’ in ‘2002’)
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*how to find out how much VRAM is in your macbook GPU* –>
*open ‘system information’*
[shift] + [command] + [n]
(click on ‘graphics/displays’ in left column)
(you will see a list of your ‘video cards’…)
*INTEL HD GRAPHICS 4000*
(built-in)
*NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 650M*
(PCIe)
(the first screen in ‘about this mac’ will show you what ‘graphics processor’ is currently in use)
(as well as its ‘VRAM’ amount)
(i’m using the built-in “intel HD graphics 4000” video card)
(with 1536MB VRAM)
(1.536 GB)
(‘adobe premiere pro’ requires 2GB VRAM)
(and ‘recommends’ 4 GB VRAM)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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