Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low...as manufactures began to sell years old video card technology for the cost of an entire gaming system and began blocking crypto mining in firmware

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A cpu can on do as many calculations as it has cores. So a 20 core cpu can do 20 calculations in one cycle while a GPU can do trillions in one cycle. Even if the cpu cycle is 100 times faster the GPU still destroys it because it does trillions of calculation in parallel.

In mining a gpu can try a trillion different numbers at once and a CPU has to try 20 at a time.