The invention discloses a non-contact type heartbeat detection method based on GPU acceleration. The heartbeat rate is calculated based on the GPU acceleration, the parallel computing ability of a GPU can be made use of, based on a skin reflection signal collected by non-contact type acquisition, the heartbeat rate is efficiently calculated in real time, the method can be applied in GPU-integrated computer or a GPU-integrated mobile phone and other GPU-integrated devices, and since the burden of the CPU is reduced, the heartbeat rate can be efficiently calculated in real time.