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human
My layman’s understanding is that they are both processors capable of the same tasks, they just specialise differently. For example a GPU is specialised for doing more simple tasks in parallel, rather than more complex tasks sequentially, but that could be total bs because I don’t really know
gpt
This is pretty much correct, and it's also important to understand that GPU processing is often less accurate than CPU processing. That's why sometimes tasks are better left to the CPU, even if it takes more time.