[kllrnohj]

Most major 3D modeling programs support OpenCL, as well, not just CUDA. In particularly any of them with MacOS ports are not CUDA-only (since, you know, MacOS hasn't supported CUDA-capable GPUs for many many years now), making the argument for CUDA specifically rather moot.

In terms of just GPGPU performance Vega is pretty competitive against Nvidia. It's not nearly as one-sided as the gaming space is. That is, in fact, the one saving grace of the Radeon VII in the first place vs. the RTX 2080 - its stronger professional workload capabilities.

[liquidify]

The programming model for OpenCL is not near what CUDA is.

[floatboth]

Gaming space is not one-sided either, the original Vega delivers excellent 4K60 performance if you don't do stupid things like MSAA.