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ameliustoday at 12:02 AM2 repliesview on HN

GPUs are for graphics (the G in GPU). These systems are used for more general computations.


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galaxy_questtoday at 12:40 AM

I’m not sure if I’m missing a joke, but that’s why we have general purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) which is why 8/10 of the top 10 machines have GPUs.

antonvstoday at 2:59 AM

GPUs were for graphics. Now, they're mainly used for machine learning training and inference. The big tech companies are spending eye-watering amounts for GPUs - hundreds of billions of dollars a year each. That's the reason that Nvidia's market cap is at $4.66 trillion.