Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)

3405.6 - 3428.728 Ben Gilbert

So you can see each of those four steps is capable of performing one and only one operation at a time. And each of these happens with one cycle of the CPU. So if you've heard of gigahertz, that's the number of cycles per second. So a one gigahertz computer could handle the simple program that we just wrote 250 million times in a single second. But you can see something going on here.