A CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) are different hardware components in a computer.
This old blog post here explains it well: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2009/12/16/whats-the-difference-between-a-cpu-and-a-gpu/
You don't use either of these to mine Bitcoin anymore as they are too inefficient.
I'd recommend that you read here first: https://www.bitcoinmining.com/
The front pages summarizes what you need to know quite well.
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