Why do people use GPUs for high-performance computation instead of a more specialized chip?

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03:43 Accepted answer (Score 108)
06:45 Answer 2 (Score 31)
08:34 Answer 3 (Score 10)
09:16 Answer 4 (Score 9)
10:34 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1328661/...

Accepted answer links:
[stream processors]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_pro...
[GPGPU]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-pu...
[shaders]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader
[Nvidia Tesla]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Tes...
[Radeon Instinct]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_Ins...

Answer 4 links:
[those]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...

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