It's a bit sales-ey, but worth a quick look.
GPU acceleration - using a graphics card to do graphics-intensive tasks that the CPU would otherwise have to do - has transformed 3D and compositing on desktop and laptop computers. Here's a short video from Eyon that illustrates this and is a good primer for anyone unfamiliar with the concept. It also explains the difference between Nvidia's GeForce and Quadro cards.
It's a bit sales-ey, but worth a quick look.
Nvidia Quadro 4000 cards are now priced below $900 so make the building of a high spec PCs cheaper than ever. They are a recommended card for DaVinci Resolve installations.
David is the Managing Editor of RedShark. He's been a professional columnist and author since 1998, when he started writing for the European Music Technology magazine Sound on Sound. In his day job, David has worked with professional digital audio and video for the last 25 years.