As part of the multimedia course we take about the graphics card a lot. But what difference does a decent graphics card make?

Well a CPU can do one thing at a time, even multi core machine can only manage up to 8 things at a time. However, a GPU can mange hundreds of calculations at the same time. I wonder how we could demonstrate that?

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