How do Graphics Cards Work? Exploring GPU Architecture

Graphics cards, or GPUs, perform trillions of calculations per second to render realistic video game graphics and other computational tasks. With over 10,000 cores, GPUs execute simple arithmetic instructions in parallel, making them ideal for tasks like video game rendering and Bitcoin mining. The GA102 chip featured in many high-end graphics cards is built from billions of transistors and organized into a hierarchical structure of processing clusters and cores. The card's efficiency is further enhanced by its advanced memory architecture, which enables rapid data transfer. This computational power is also leveraged in AI through tensor cores for complex matrix operations.