Apple ain't cheap, but they love max profit more. Just look at how they manipulate the supply chain of their various products, they want premium-ish parts at the most importantly the lowest price. They choose AMD because they aren't pushing their own API that compete with OpenCL, and probably other financial incentives. If Nvidia were to provide parts at cheaper price and abandon CUDA at the same time, Apple might just switch at a heartbeat.
Apple created OpenCL, so obviously they (along with AMD) would declare that as the best thing since sliced bread and only support that in Final Cut. On the other hand there are plenty of established apps/APIs utilizing CUDA better than OpenCL, and GPGPU libraries that simply don't even care and just support both. "Pure OpenCL powerful cards which is good for professional work" is too much of a blanket statement without context (but of course that's exactly what Apple/AMD want you to believe).
This whole thing mirrors the OpenGL vs DirectX war back in the day, with no clear answer if one was truly better than the other. It simply comes down to what apps you use.
Also there's AMD Raedon Pro with is just like the Quadro line, so I'm not really following that "AMD gives the whole package in their consumer GPUs as their professional cards" logic.
''It simply comes down to what apps you use'', ''Apple created OpenCL, so obviously they (along with AMD)''. Thank you Sir, you just clearly answered yourself why supported AMD GPU is better than Nvidia for Apple Mac OS.
''only support that in Final Cut'' You are very wrong, because Apple supports GPU acceleration for the whole system and for the main Apple based applications like Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor, iMovie, heavy video playback and even for iBooks, Safari web browser and other. So I hope you learned something new now.
Plus, as I said earlier the new Adobe 2018 supports OpenCL as well as DaVinci Resolve. So, as I use all those Apps now I should be more than happy to use only AMD GPU on my Hackintosh as you said ''It simply comes down to what apps you use.'', right?
And for the record, if you don't use those Apps then why you need a Hackintosh or any Apple based system anyway?
''On the other hand there are plenty of established apps/APIs utilizing CUDA better than OpenCL'', give me names of Apps in Apple Mac OS which utilize CUDA better than OpenCL? Even Adobe CUDA support is not for all Nvidia cards and you should know it. Anyway, name the apps/APIs in Mac OS please, Im not here to bla bla with anyone so if you have names then list them.
There is literally nothing Apple/AMD can make me believe, when I daily use my system and see its behavior on AMD or Nvidia GPU, a huge different anyone can notice. I don't blame you for anything because you never experienced the differences when your GPU is officially supported from Apple, or its from a 3rd party support like Nvidia buggy Webdriver.
Did you see how your Nvidia without 3rd party webdriver is? that is the truth about Nvidia Maxwell/Pascal GPUs in Mac OS, so how CUDA is better than an Apple officially supported OpenCL GPU? what word ''better'' means to you?
I mentioned already the AMD Pro line and for sure they give the whole package in their consumer cards, its totally different from what Nvidia Quadro and GTX series are. Internet can help you on that so you can search for those facts by yourself.
