GPU is the silicon die that actually processes information to drive an image on your display. It is typically found on a graphics card, or integrated with a motherboard or processor.
For the most part, people use the words interchangeably, even though, as mentioned above, the GPU is the chip on the card, much like the CPU on the motherboard.
The difference only really matters in laptops- in a laptop you won't (usually) have a separate graphics card, but you can have a GPU soldered onto the motherboard.
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