750 vs 850: when does it matter when not gaming?

[MareLuce]

What non-gaming scenarios would be improved in the 15 inch retina MacBook Pro when Apple upgrades the 750 graphics card to the 850?

 

[yjchua95]

What non-gaming scenarios would be improved in the 15 inch retina MacBook Pro when Apple upgrades the 750 graphics card to the 850?

CUDA-accelerated software.

And battery life. Maxwell (800M series) use far less power than the Kepler (700M series) GPUs.

 

[MareLuce]

CUDA-accelerated software.

Thank you. From Google, examples of "CUDA-accelerated software":

- Photoshop
- Autocad
- Badaboom
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- any other apps in common use?


Other non-gaming use cases?

 

[kappaknight]

I haven't had to do speedy Photoshop ever... and even my "older" MBP's can do Photoshop pretty well.