
What Are CUDA Cores? How NVIDIA GPU Cores Work
CUDA cores are arithmetic resources, not miniature CPUs. Learn how they work with SMs, warps, Tensor Cores, and memory.
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CUDA cores are arithmetic resources, not miniature CPUs. Learn how they work with SMs, warps, Tensor Cores, and memory.

A GPU may have thousands of “cores,” but they’re nothing like CPU cores. Here’s why comparing the numbers directly can mislead you.

A GPU can perform an absurd amount of math, but that doesn’t always make it faster than a CPU. The difference comes down to architecture.