Modern day computers are no longer being used to just merely browse the internet or watch
videos. There are a vast number of things to do, from high-quality movie streaming, very
demanding games, artificial intelligence, video editing, and data processing, this leads to two
questions. What does it take to run these tasks, and more importantly how do they work together
to handle a person’s everyday needs.
To Begin, to run a computer’s everyday needs, the computer needs a CPU (central processing
unit), GPU (graphic processing unit), NPU (neutral processing unit), and a LPU (language
processing unit). Depending on what is tasked, it may require stronger components. For example,
high demand gaming.
Gaming is the perfect example of how different components run and can affect everyday needs.
When it comes to gaming the main worker is the CPU. The CPU is the mind of the computer,
used to handle instructions and communicate with other components. A great pick for CPU is the
Intel core ultra 9 285T
This CPU is powerhouse with 24 cores and a max
base frequency of 1.4 GHz / 1400 MHz. Along with those it also contains Architecture NPU 3,
which is an AI processing engine built into the CPU. (2025, Gennadiy Shvets)
The CPU handles the communication, but when graphics get fancy, The GPU is in charge. A
GPU is needed in most cases because although the CPU has integrated graphics, the integrated
graphics share memory and processing with the CPU, in return causing bottlenecks. A great pick
for a GPU is the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
This GPU has 4608 NVIDIA CUDA
Cores, 4th generation raytracing with 72 TFLOPS, a base clock of 2.41 GHz, and 16 GB of
GDDR7 memory. (2026 NVIDIA Corporation).
The LPU is a processing unit that is made specifically for AI work. Different from a GPU
which can handle a variety of things, the company Groq designed a LPU to handle AI inference
and large language models more efficiently. This works hand in hand with both the GPU and
CPU to perform just about anything a person could need. (2025, Groq)
References
CPU-World. (2025, June 28). Intel Core Ultra 9 285T. https://www.cpuworld.com/CPUs/Core_Ultra_9/Intel-Core%20Ultra%209%20285T.html
Groq. (2025, March 7). What is a language processing unit? https://groq.com/blog/the-groq-lpuexplained
NVIDIA Corporation. (2025). Compare current and previous GeForce series of graphics cards.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/compare/
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