AMD has actually donated some nice amount of engineer-hours to enable ImageMagick to use OpenCL. And the difference is massive.
So if you have a webservice that allows users to upload images and then subsequently processes the images it's cost efficient to purchase few AMD APU's instead of massive Intel Xeon server.
There are a lot of other things to do, but Imagemagick is something that has support for it right now.
AMD has actually donated some nice amount of engineer-hours to enable ImageMagick to use OpenCL. And the difference is massive.
So if you have a webservice that allows users to upload images and then subsequently processes the images it's cost efficient to purchase few AMD APU's instead of massive Intel Xeon server.
There are a lot of other things to do, but Imagemagick is something that has support for it right now.