Nvidia’s massive Ampere GPU

Nvidia has been pushing the envelope on graphics chips since it integrated the geometry processor and pixel shader into one chip and called it a GPU, 21 years ago. The potential for GPUs then vastly expanded in 2003 when a branch of development spiked out of GPU applications that took advantage of the GPUs parallel processing for pure computation using Brook, a collection of C programs with streams developed at Stanford. That work morphed into Nvidia’s famous CUDA and started the era of GPU-compute also called GPGPU and accelerated computing. Brook freed the GPU from OpenGL, which had been used