Apple, Mac Pro, Amd vs Nvidia with cuda? Why, and what to buy for Premiere Pro?

Mac Pro has dual Amd video cards installed, and does not offer Nvidia cards with Cuda in this line up, as far as I can tell. The iMacs offer nvidia cards which seem a better choice for Premiere Pro which uses the cuda rendering capabilities. Which would be best for Premiere Pro? The quad Mac Pro, or the top of the line iMac with double the ram, say 32gigs vs 16 in the Mac Pro? Why did Apple put AMD cards in the Mac Pro line?

jtopenshaw wrote:
Why did Apple put AMD cards in the Mac Pro line?
Apple believes that OpenCL, not CUDA, is the future of GPGPU computing. CUDA is closed and proprietary to nVidia only. OpenCL is, as the name says: open.
As of the creation and planning of the Mac Pro, nVidia's GPUs were (and most of them still are) very poor performers when it comes to OpenCL. I expect that, over time, nVidia will catch up to AMD regarding OpenCL. But they're not quite there yet, across the board.
Why are the GPUs in the iMac (and Macbook Pro) nVidia? They make better and more efficient mobile GPUs at this point in time. The GPU in the iMac is similar to the GPU in the Macbook Pro in that they're both mobile, not desktop GPUs. AMD has a fairly poor representation in that market (so far), so Apple stuck with nVidia.
It's likely that Apple doesn't see the iMac and Macbook Pro lineup as devices to be used for massive GPGPU processing. The Mac Pro, on the other hand is where they see that being used heavily. Perhaps when and if AMD decides to produce an efficient and powerful mobile GPU, Apple will cut (back) over to them. But one can only guess, there.
Ugio wrote:
What I can tell you it's that the mixture between Mac Pro (2013) and the last Adobe Suite does not worth the money.
That's fair and is your opinion. I don't agree. :-)

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