You may have noticed that NVIDIA’s hardware, which is currently the leader in the graphics card market, is growing day by day. When we moved from the GTX series to the RTX series, the graphics cards were as much as the arm, and with the latest 4000 series, so to speak, the head.
Well, have you ever thought why these graphics cards are so big and keep getting bigger with each new series? Especially when processors are such a small size? Let’s answer it simply.
As a matter of fact, it wouldn’t be fair to compare a ‘video card’ (see we don’t call it a graphics processing unit) to a central processing unit (CPU).
What would be fair would be to compare the graphics card to the motherboard. The reason for this is that what you call the graphics processing unit is almost the same size as the central processing unit, sometimes even smaller. However, just as the central processing unit is located on a motherboard, the graphics processing unit is located on a graphics card.
In other words, the graphics processing unit (GPU) has its own motherboard and you can think of it as if you are plugging another motherboard into the motherboard in your case so that it can process the graphics. Huh, ‘why is it getting so big?’ As for the question:
As the graphics processing unit evolves, so does the hardware and cooling it needs.
The answer is actually that simple. When you take a latest model graphics card, open it and examine it, you will see that most of it is reserved for cooling. As a matter of fact, not only graphics cards, but also processors are growing at the same rate.
The reason for their growth is the increase in the number of transistors (conductors) as the hardware develops technologically and has more capacity. Therefore, the area it covers is also enlarged.
In other words, we can say that the central processing unit (CPU) is logically larger than the graphics card because it is connected to the motherboard.
Do you think the dimensions of the graphics cards are too absurd or are they the way they should be?
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