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Parallel computing is when you do a lot of different things at once, a graphics card is a parallel processor. The main CPU is a serial processor, it does one thing, but does it really fast, then switches to another. Video editing works better on a parallel processor, for you can encode different frames all at the same time, instead of working on one, then moving on to the next.

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