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What do you even do with a GPU on a Mac these days? I guess there are a decent amount of games now, but it seems like it'd be mostly limited to "creative" stuff since CUDA is out of the question.

Imagine how much more dire it's going to get once Apple has ditched Intel. Are they going to continue using third-party, discrete GPUs? You definitely won't be able to use one off the shelf (at least without flashing the card's BIOS)

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You do GPU-accelerated 3D rendering. [1]

You do GPU-accelerated video editing. [2]

You do GPU-accelerated machine learning. [3]

[1] https://home.otoy.com/octane-x-pr1/

[2] https://www.apple.com/de/final-cut-pro/

[3] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10677/

You need to watch youtube these days.

Intel integrated GPU has a huge downside in laptops - offloading to it causes it to heat up and since, so close to the CPU...CPU gets heavily thermal throttled. That's true for any laptop that isn't inch or more thiccc.

Also, Apple will be switching to their own GPU in a few years.

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