Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index GPU is an acronym for Graphics Processing Unit, a term first introduced by nVidia to make a parallel with CPUs. It originally referred to the processor of the GeForce3 graphic card, and now stands for processors present in all recent graphic cards. GPU can also mean Global Processing Unit and refer to distributed computing projects. Links Distributed computing Seti@Home Distributed.net @PU This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.