I have to confess that I am not too happy that Nvidia has gotten so much traction with CUDA. Thanks to them being alone in the beginning, it feels like many things default to CUDA when it should be the open standard OpenCL instead.



Especially as Apple users, we should really fight for OpenCL. Looking at Barefeats.com AMD actually does quite well in FCPX and Resolve. Those are the main apps that matter to me, since both Maxwell Render and Arnold are CPU based.



Anyway, when powerful cards get released, and we can use them in the cMP, there is reason to rejoyce!



Correct me if I'm wrong, but this card isn't revolutionary in all categories right? Something about double precision?



I am not up to speed concerning Nvidia. Can someone summarize this cards benefits (strong points) in a few sentances? The amount of memory is obvious. It has many CUDA cores, right? Is this a strong compute card, or is it a strong gaming card, in the Nvidia universe?



The reason I want to get my bearings straight is that I see that two (now old) R9 290X mostly beat two (new) GTX980s in many pro apps on Barefeats.