With all of the buzz surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), data mining, bitcoin, and machine vision, graphics cards and GPUs (graphics processing unit) are all the rage. Graphics cards and their GPU processors have gotten crazy-popular and crazier-expensive.
But what do they do, and how do they compare? Increasingly the military is interested in graphics cards and GPGPUs (general purpose graphics processing unit) for autonomous vehicles, “tip of the spear” processing (right in the weapon itself), for sensor fusion, to perform image enhancement, and more.