Why do CPUs use less electricity than GPUs?

Now show me one from years ago. Where "years ago" is a similar timeframe to when graphics cards got that powerful.

Funny how it's still advertised here:

And oh look Nvidea are using 7nm too:

What on earth did you mean? You talk about "massive video cards" then refer to the required CPU.

You continue to make no sense at all. Millions run those applications, some on a little smartphone, some (like a guy I know who works for NASA) with SEVEN graphics cards, watercooled, stacked onto one motherboard. It's cooled by a radiator. A central heating radiator. Why would a 3rd worlder spend money running those programs?

as many cores that have 250W TDP like graphics cards?

I remember back in the day AMD was trying to compete with Intel and develop ed a chip that used so much electricity it had a small gasoline generator b uilt in. It worked pretty well, but the users kept complaining about the e missions and it didn't meet the CAFE requirements.

Go figure, wussies!

Are you sure these are used as graphic cards to drive some display unit ?

At least some (radio)astronomers use GPU cards (without video interface) as massively parallel processors. Unfortunately the GPU instruction set is not well suited for scientific calculations, so the GPU programming is quite awkward.

When a big powerful CPU is idling it isn't power hungry. TDP is a maximum measurement.

You have a link to the ark site. enter your data for whatever graphic cards getting powerful means and find your answer.

More transistors & bigger transister nanometers.

GPUs can have more transistors and perhaps bigger ones.

Also perhaps more chips ! =D

Bye, Skybuck =D

So a 64 core AMD is actually 8 8 core CPUs?

They don't and I never said they did.

Radio is old hat, gamma and gravity wave are used nowadays.

I do. They have a video interface, you just don't have to connect a monitor to them all.

It's very well suited for astrophysics calculations. Biologists have managed too.

No, I have an enormous amount of processors to sift through.