A similar question was raised some day’s ago from a other person, but with different background. In this case, I would like to buy a nice gaming laptop. Of course I would use it for office and coding to, but primary I’m searching recommendations for gaming. I would like to play Wine/Proton game’s and also native Linux games. As OS, I like to use Manjaro Gnome.
Should I better buy all of AMD (if yes, which CPI, GPU) or Intel/Nvidia? Or Intel CPU and AMD GPU? Which combination is the right one with best performance for a casual gamer? I prefer FPS games, if that’s important…
What does a GPU do ? Is graphics card same as GPU?
Basically. Graphics card theoretically is referring to the entire removable part on a desktop that has the GPU, power delivery, memory, cooling, etc, but in practice they’re used interchangeably and mean the same thing.
In casual conversation, GPU and graphics card are interchangeable.
When being technical, the GPU is the chip itself, the only part that is made by Nvidia or AMD or Intel, while the graphics card is the entire circuit board/chip/components/heat sink/fan assembly. It’s a bit like the CPU in the motherboard, they’re just not sold separately.
That’s in desktop computers. Laptops usually don’t have a “graphics card.” Laptops that have a dedicated GPU it’s usually permanently attached to the motherboard. The Framework 16 mentioned above is a modular laptop, and will have removable GPU modules.
It’s the same thing
they do very parallelized workloads like 3d rendering