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Graphics processing unit, a Rare card
A graphics processing unit is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a component on a discrete graphics card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 290,000
Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- GPUs are also increasingly being used for artificial intelligence processing and model training due to linear algebra acceleration, which is also used extensively in graphics processing.
- Although there is no single definition of the term, and it may be used to describe any video display system, in modern use a GPU includes the ability to internally perform the calculations needed for various graphics tasks, like rotating and scaling 3D images, and often the additional ability to run custom programs known as shaders.
- This contrasts with earlier graphics controllers known as video display controllers which had no internal calculation capabilities, or blitters, which performed only basic memory movement operations.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Graphics processing unit article was read about 290,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Graphics processing unit
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Graphics processing unit (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ScotXW, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.

