Photoshop, and many other gfx software use GPU acceleration since 5+ years ago.

And almost none of those apps are going to max out an Iris Pro, let alone a 980M.

They don't need to "max out" a card, because PS is not a game.

What counts is the time it takes to perform an operation like a Camera RAW import or a blur. If that goes down by a significant percentage, productivity goes up by a significant amount.

For drawing, good acceleration is the difference between a distracting experience that's laggy and unusable, and a smooth experience that gets out of the way of the work.

Besides, there are people with an interest in art and machine learning. Good luck with a 980M if that's your area of interest.

Not to the level people in this thread think they do.

I am also puzzled by this... Maybe knowing they have more horsepower than they need empowers them. Or maybe they are doing a lot of high poly 3D work or something.

Driving that 16mln pixel screen needs some graphic power today, tomorrow it will be even more resource hungry

Maybe the potential to use the $3000 computer for something else than drawing?