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WHAT EVERY DEVELOPER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GPU COMPUTING
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GPUs are especially important to understand today due to their necessity in deep learning and AI. This article goes over the fundamental differences between CPUs and GPUs, with GPUs optimized for parallelism and high throughput. It also discusses GPU architecture, including streaming multiprocessors (SMs), memory hierarchy, and how GPUs tolerate high latencies to achieve their throughput.