Snow Leopard’s OpenCL Using Both GPUs in MacBook Pro
One of the neat things I had hoped about the MacBook Pro with the two GPUs was that once OpenCL was in the OS (Snow Leopard), we'd be able to take advantage of both GPUs not just one as with the graphics display. I had wondered why someone in Apple's position would have wasted the space, power, heat, to put a second GPU without some idea that it would be useful to the user in the future. And it is.
This article talks about the benchmarks done with Snow Leopard and the OpenCL performance - and it's indeed using both GPUs. This is fantastic news, as it means that Apple is going to be pushing processing tasks into OpenCL, and we'll all be able to benefit from them.
Fantastic news. I just need to get Growl and Dropbox to be Snow Leopard compatible and then I can update and see the sweetness.