[abtinf]

For the Mac Pro target market, 2xGPU combined with massive memory bandwidth is a blessing. Final Cut, Photoshop, and other creative software are GPU accelerated.

The Xeon Phi is significantly more expensive, draws significantly more power, and is significantly less useful for creative software loads.

[corresation]

For the Mac Pro target market

Which is what? It's just anecdotal but most of the people I know with Pros got it as a high end development workstation, building iOS apps, etc. Final Cut Pro is pretty much the only app that benefits from the dual GPUs, and even then the gain is relatively marginal over a machine four years old. And that's paying for very high priced "workstation" GPUs (I called them compute cards because that is what they are geared for, though as with all compute cards they are derivatives of GPUs. They're really price ineffective as GPUs), when you can get almost all of the same advantages on a basic ATI card for a couple hundred dollars.

Virtually every review of the Pro seems to be giving it a very soft glove approach for some reason. It is an enormously expensive monument to the dual compute GPU, for marginal gains in most apps.

[interpol_p]

Buying a Mac Pro to "build iOS apps" or even to do heavy Photoshop work is a waste of money. The people that bought them for those reasons did not make an educated decision. A 15" rMBP or iMac is perfectly fast for those tasks.

The Mac Pro is a reasonably priced dual compute GPU workstation. But it's enormously expensive when compared to what most people actually need.

I'd say that if you are doing 4k Final Cut Pro work or writing your own OpenCL software, this machine is for you. In the future it may be suitable for people using GPU-based 3D renderers (I don't think there's any great ones on OpenCL at the moment).

Aside from the above niche target market, the Mac Pro target market doesn't exist yet. Apple seems to be using this machine to push the development of OpenCL and to push the development of "Pro" software for Mac OS X in the direction they want to see it go.

Personally, I think it's a very exciting direction to take pro software. I hope many developers jump on board. Once that happens I think we'll start to see a larger target market for the machines.