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One of the key tasks carried out by a game engine is to feed geometry data to the graphics processing unit (GPU). A GPU is a highly specialized piece of hardware which operates on streams of data in parallel. This parallelization of processing is what makes GPUs essential in modern real-time graphics applications and is the reason why they were dubbed hardware accelerators.
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Sutherland, B. (2013). Writing a Renderer. In: Beginning Android C++ Game Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5831-5_5
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