Does fcpx uses the gdp under Mountain Lion?

We are using fcpx 10.0.6 on a MBP2011 and an iMAC27-2009 under 10.7. It is running smoothly, using all cores but seemingly not the gdp.
Will that change with an upgrade to 10.8?
Thanks!

I assume you are talking about the gpu. AFAICT there is no way to actually see how much of the gpu an application or process is using (as opposed to the use of the cpu, as you can see in Activity Monitor).
It appears that 10.0.6 does make more use of the gpu than previous versions, which results in much faster rendering, for instance. This does not seem to be OS related, but rather from the way the application is coded to target the gpu (presumably via OpenCL, but I can only speculate, of course).

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