What Happens Inside a Graphics Card

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How does a graphics card actually work? We take an RTX 3060 apart layer by layer until we reach the part that does the work, then show how the same small sum runs games, video, crypto mining and AI, and how a chip made for video games ended up under most of the world's AI.

Then we find out what a card more than ten times the price really buys, why VRAM matters, and put the 3060 up against the graphics in a MacBook M5 Max in our own tests: AI sums, ray tracing, video encoding and the moment the memory runs out.

Chapters
0:00 What does a graphics card know about grass?
0:52 Taking an RTX 3060 apart
2:04 What compute really means
2:43 Why a GPU is not a CPU
3:21 Inside the chip: blocks, gangs, workers
5:10 Games, video, mining and AI
9:03 What an expensive card really buys
10:12 VRAM: the shelves beside the kitchen
11:32 RTX 3060 against a MacBook M5 Max
14:34 Grass