In The Era Of Artificial Intelligence, GPUs Are The New CPUs

Traditionally, computing power is associated with the number of CPUs and the cores per processing unit. During the 90s, when WinTel started to invade the enterprise data center, application performance and database throughput were directly proportional to the number of CPUs and available RAM. While these factors are critical to achieving the desired performance of enterprise applications, a new processor started to gain attention – Graphics Processing Unit or GPU. For many of us, GPUs remind of the video cards that were designed for graphic-intensive games. These were purely optional, which didn't influence the buying decision of an average user investing in a PC or server.