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More and more (professional) apps use the gpu for compute. So does macOS. The days of using a gpu only for games or even graphical apps are long over. I’m prett

by vimy 4y ago

More and more (professional) apps use the gpu for compute. So does macOS. The days of using a gpu only for games or even graphical apps are long over. I’m pretty sure yours isn’t as idle as you think it is.

Maursault 4y ago
> More and more (professional) apps use the gpu for compute. I expect 3D rendering applications, video editing applications and image manipulation applications to use GPU, as they always have since they first could. Machine Learning uses GPU, but the bigger M1 chips have the Neural Engine for that, so maybe not so much anymore on macOS. I doubt anyone would bother mining crypto on commodity hardware. But when you refer to, "more and more (professional) apps," I don't know what you're referring to. DAWs will only use GPU for displaying the interface, iow, barely perceptibly, not for applying filters or effects on audio. Spreadsheets, accounting software, financial software, municipal software, inventory software won't need GPU. Desktop publishing applications don't need GPU. CAD software doesn't need GPU. Beyond rendering, video editing, accelerated image manipulation, Machine Learning, cryptomining and games, I don't know for what else a GPU can be used. macOS uses GPU to drive displays and for the GUI, but hardly, and otherwise, not so much. Why would it? How could a GPU make system operating more efficient? Open up your Activity Monitor, under the Window menu open the GPU History window, and you can watch how macOS doesn't really utilize the GPU. It must use it for Quartz screen rendering, but it is such a tiny amount it doesn't even register.
- monocasa 4y ago
  > Spreadsheets, accounting software, financial software, municipal software, inventory software won't need GPU. Desktop publishing applications don't need GPU. All of those use the GPU since modern UI toolkits are designed to use GPU offload. > CAD software doesn't need GPU. Wat.

by vimy 4y ago

Maursault 4y ago

> More and more (professional) apps use the gpu for compute. I expect 3D rendering applications, video editing applications and image manipulation applications to use GPU, as they always have since they first could. Machine Learning uses GPU, but the bigger M1 chips have the Neural Engine for that, so maybe not so much anymore on macOS. I doubt anyone would bother mining crypto on commodity hardware. But when you refer to, "more and more (professional) apps," I don't know what you're referring to. DAWs will only use GPU for displaying the interface, iow, barely perceptibly, not for applying filters or effects on audio. Spreadsheets, accounting software, financial software, municipal software, inventory software won't need GPU. Desktop publishing applications don't need GPU. CAD software doesn't need GPU. Beyond rendering, video editing, accelerated image manipulation, Machine Learning, cryptomining and games, I don't know for what else a GPU can be used. macOS uses GPU to drive displays and for the GUI, but hardly, and otherwise, not so much. Why would it? How could a GPU make system operating more efficient? Open up your Activity Monitor, under the Window menu open the GPU History window, and you can watch how macOS doesn't really utilize the GPU. It must use it for Quartz screen rendering, but it is such a tiny amount it doesn't even register.

monocasa 4y ago
> Spreadsheets, accounting software, financial software, municipal software, inventory software won't need GPU. Desktop publishing applications don't need GPU. All of those use the GPU since modern UI toolkits are designed to use GPU offload. > CAD software doesn't need GPU. Wat.