I would think a GPU might help if you have a lot of audio channels and a lot of effects on each channel. But even if that is not the case, machine learning is

I would think a GPU might help if you have a lot of audio channels and a lot of effects on each channel. But even if that is not the case, machine learning is making its way into music production tools more and more. No doubt a beefy GPU will be useful to a lot of music production professionals in the future at least, as the tools they are using begin to leverage ML more and more.