From the course: Hardware Configuration for AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor
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What is a GPU?
From the course: Hardware Configuration for AutoCAD, Revit, and Inventor
What is a GPU?
- [Instructor] We're moving into a new chapter now, and you may have heard me mention the terminology, GPU or Graphics Processing Unit. That is your graphics card in your hardware, in your desktop PC, your laptop, your computer. Now you'll notice on the screen at the moment we have a Radeon Pro WX 8200. That is a particular proprietary brand of GPU or Graphics Processing Unit. If you look at the image there, you can see the little yellow connectors, the little brass connectors there. That's what clips into the motherboard in your computer and gives you that graphics processing capability. Now a Graphics Processing Unit acts as a separate processor for graphics only. So what it does is it takes away the load on your CPU, your Central Processing Unit on your motherboard of your PC, and allows you to work harder with your graphics and generate much more sophisticated graphics in your Autodesk software. So if you're using…
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