[fit2rule]

.. what this means, is that Apple is competing against the Titan/NVIDIA hardware designers to make better compute power available at scale, and in a way which makes sense across consumer/pro boundaries.

In that context, the Mac Pro doesn't sound too bad a proposition. I say that as someone who recently built a dual-Titan/AMD Ryzen system, and while the pain of the build is almost gone away .. I do lust after that sexy Apple box, being plug 'n play and all ..

[angry_octet]

Intel competes with nVidia on high end GPU hardware and so far (KL and KF) are doing an abysmal job of it, despite using their CPU control to lock nVidia out of the CPU bus.

Apple can't really compete except in mobile GPUs, which is all about power constraints set to single digits Watts, vs >100W for server. That isn't all bad for Apple, there is lots of inference to be done, but by refusing nVidia hardware they impose a developer hurdle.

I'm looking forward to people putting 2080s into the new Mac Pro and seeing how reliable it is.