Hardware acceleration
USE OF SPECIALIZED COMPUTER HARDWARE TO PERFORM SOME FUNCTIONS MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN IS POSSIBLE IN SOFTWARE RUNNING ON A MORE GENERAL-PURPOSE CPU
Hardware accelerator; Accelerator board; Hardware mixing; Acceleration hardware; Hardware-accelerated; Hardware Acceleration; Hardware accelerators; Hardware accelerated; Hardware acceleration (computing)
Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose central processing unit (CPU). Any transformation of data that can be calculated in software running on a generic CPU can also be calculated in custom-made hardware, or in some mix of both.