So it seems that Adam and Jamie were invited to NVISION to promote NVidia. So they decided to demonstrate what a GPU is. Using three of their favorite things. Blowing stuff up. Shooting stuff. And robots.
Mythbusters GPU vs CPU,
part 2,
"Leonardo. He may look like a skid steered battlebots platform with paintball gun mounted on his head. But in fact, at heart, he's a painter."
"It's just like this on the show. Only they edit it to make it faster."
"It's kinda like a parallel processor. Or GPU. If it works." "If it doesn't, we are screwed."
"These aren't prizes. These are sheets to cover you guys up."