[ GLOSSARY DEFINITION ]
Performance
GPU
Specialized chip for rendering, gaming, and image processing — key to gaming scores.
Also known as:
Graphics
Graphics Processor
Full Definition & Technical Explanation
GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) renders games and accelerates photos/video. Flagship mobile GPUs use 5–6 cores at 1.5+ GHz; laptop/desktop GPUs have thousands of shading units, dedicated VRAM, and DLSS/FSR upscaling.
Look at GPU: 803562 score, Graphics Score, GPU clock, and Ray Tracing.
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CPU
The main processor that executes apps and system tasks; more cores/clock = faster general performan…
Performance
FLOPS
Floating-point operations per second; a raw measure of compute power for GPUs and AI.
Gaming
Ray Tracing
Hardware-accelerated realistic lighting and reflections in games, measured on CompareTech's Gaming …
Gaming
Shading Units
The parallel processors inside a GPU that do the math for each pixel; more = more GPU power.
Gaming
SoC
A single chip integrating CPU, GPU, modem, ISP, NPU and memory controller.
Performance
VRAM
Dedicated memory on a graphics card; more VRAM enables higher resolutions and textures.
Memory