> Was their lack of OpenCL adoption on the trashcan Mac Pro really all attributable to OpenCL?
I'm not sure I follow you here. The trash bin Mac Pro was flawed from day 1 and the fact that it's seen few upgrades (and no significant upgrades) in the 6 years since hasn't helped it a bit. I'm not attributing the failure of the Mac Pro to OpenCL, it flopped all on it's own.
I'm not attributing the failure of the Mac Pro to OpenCL, I'm attributing the failure of OpenCL to the Mac Pro.
If they wanted OpenCL to unseat CUDA (or even compete with it) for professional GPU compute users, they needed competitive GPU hardware, and they didn't have it.
There was plenty of OpenCL shipping with AMD on other platforms. Apple is not interested in a market competitor to CUDA, only an alternative since they don't ship Nvidia GPUs across their lineup.
I'm not sure I follow you here. The trash bin Mac Pro was flawed from day 1 and the fact that it's seen few upgrades (and no significant upgrades) in the 6 years since hasn't helped it a bit. I'm not attributing the failure of the Mac Pro to OpenCL, it flopped all on it's own.