The Branch Education channel enriches our technological knowledge with another exciting video, this time focusing on how the GPU works.
Three weeks ago, we shared with you a particularly interesting video published by the Branch Education YouTube channel. A channel specializing in everything that helps us better understand the workings of many of the devices around us. Three weeks ago, we went into the heart of a CPU(Central Processing Unit) to learn all about how it works. Today, we're doing the same with another of today's hottest chips, the GPU (or Graphical Processing Unit). This chip, which powers our graphics cards, is quite different from a CPU, and while the latter is characterized by less power but far greater versatility, the GPU shows its superiority in repetitive calculations, which it processes at very, very high speed.
Just as they did with the CPU, the Branch Education chain's promoters use a very pedagogical approach to explain all the processes at work within a GPU. Once again, multiple analogies make it easy to understand even the trickiest concepts, especially when you're just starting out in the tech world. A little shorter than its predecessor - but still just over 28 minutes long - the video then moves on to data exchanges between the GPU and its video memory, and explains the difference between the GDDR used on our gaming graphics cards and the HBM(High Bandwidth Memory) used by artificial intelligence calculators. Finally, she looks back at concepts such as " embarrassingly parallel problems " and " single instruction multiple data ". A fascinating read.
