[ GLOSSARY DEFINITION ]
Gaming
Shading Units
The parallel processors inside a GPU that do the math for each pixel; more = more GPU power.
Also known as:
Shader Cores
CUDA Cores
Stream Processors
Shaders
Full Definition & Technical Explanation
Shading units (also shader cores, CUDA Cores on NVIDIA, Stream Processors on AMD) are the GPU's parallel processors. See Shading units: 1280 in GPU specs.
More units = higher raw performance, but architecture and clock matter too. Compare across the same architecture family.
Related Technical Terms
FLOPS
Floating-point operations per second; a raw measure of compute power for GPUs and AI.
Gaming
GPU
Specialized chip for rendering, gaming, and image processing — key to gaming scores.
Performance
ROPs
GPU units that write finished pixels to the frame buffer; more ROPs help high resolutions.
Gaming
TMUs
GPU units that apply textures to 3D surfaces; more TMUs improve textured rendering.
Gaming