They are used for other things, but<p>* They&#x27;re better at graphics than that other stuff,<p>* Other auxiliary processors exist which beat GPUs on most kinds of that other stuff (though they aren&#x27;t as accessible as GPUs),<p>* Most importantly, what sells GPUs is first and foremost their performance on graphics workloads. A GPU with stellar OpenCL performance but sucky OpenGL performance will be outsold by a huge margin by a GPU with the reverse characteristics.<p>So they&#x27;re GPUs alright.