Will OpenCL in Snow Leopard utilize the dormant GPU in Macbook Pros?
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Macbook Pros currently running Leopard (10.5) utilize only one graphics card at a time (a decision disguised as a power profile change). Will OpenCL (introduced to the platform in 10.6) continue this trend by only allowing access to the active graphics card, or will it be able to use resources on t…
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Found on Ars Technica (LGT Source Article): "Furthermore, an interesting tidbit about Snow Leopard's implementation is revealed by early tests. Though Snow Leopard doesn't seem to enable dual GPUs or on-the-fly GPU switching for machines using the N…
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