GPU
abbreviation or noun
variants
or less commonly gpu
plural GPUs also gpus
: a specialized CPU designed to efficiently perform calculations for generating computer graphics
A GPU can deliver hundreds of billions of operations per second—some GPUs more than a teraflop, or a trillion operations per second—while requiring only slightly more electrical power and cooling than a CPU.—
Andrea Di Blas et al.
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Ministral 3 can be deployed on a single graphics processing unit (GPU), which the company said reduced running costs and sped up iteration.
—Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025
Markets lately have been cheering Google’s TPU—which has a smaller use case than the GPU but requires less power—as a potential competitor to Nvidia’s GPU.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2025
This is a more than capable midrange battlestation with an RTX 5070 GPU, which on its own retails for $580.
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Yet capturing its full physical structure demanded nearly Perlmutter’s entire GPU fleet.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Nov. 2025
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025
Markets lately have been cheering Google’s TPU—which has a smaller use case than the GPU but requires less power—as a potential competitor to Nvidia’s GPU.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2025
This is a more than capable midrange battlestation with an RTX 5070 GPU, which on its own retails for $580.
—PC Magazine, 2 Dec. 2025
Yet capturing its full physical structure demanded nearly Perlmutter’s entire GPU fleet.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Nov. 2025
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“GPU.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/GPU. Accessed 6 Dec. 2025.
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