| JRPGfan said: Isnt the reason why Apple uses AMD because the GPUs do the sort of compute work they need in their OS and programs, better than nvidia gpus? Apple dont look at graphics cards as "just" gameing devices, where performance/watt is all that matters. They care about compute performance because unlike most they controll their software ecosystem and have software that uses these features. |
AMD is certainly much better than Nvidia when it comes to OpenCL support but I don't think that's the reason why Apple sticks with AMD anymore ...
Apple sticks with AMD because they are much easier to control than Nvidia, it's probably the same reason why relevant console manufacturers are exclusively AMD ...
Apple doesn't want anybody controlling it's ecosystem similar to the others ...
