A pieceofhardwarethatcouldsitalongsideyourCPU, whichatthistimecouldonlyprocessonecalculationat a timeandtakeonthegraphicsrenderingloadwhileyou'regamingusingfarmoreefficientparallelprocessing.
Funfact, actually, thisisthegraphicscard I installedonthefirsteverPC I built.
面白いことに、実はこのグラフィックカードは、私が初めて作ったPCに取り付けたものなんだ。
Everycoupleofyears, they'vecomeonstage, they'veannounced a newgenerationofgraphicscards, andthey'vebeensosuccessfulatmakingeachone a leapabovethelastthatthey'renowoutsellingtheirtraditionalrival, AMD, youknow, thecompanywhoJensenoriginallygothisdreamjobworkingat, to a ridiculousextent.
In 2006, NVIDIAreleasedCUDA, ComputeUnifiedDeviceArchitecture, whichtheycouldhavedone a betterjobnamingforsomethingthat's actually a bitof a gamechanger.