Even if that were not the case, I doubt the performance of the OS X image pipeline is tuned for non-Apple hardware if it supports it at all.
Any generic desktop computer with the same hardware. It sounds like they're using Apple's image pipeline, which I imagine would be designed around the specific graphics hardware in the Mac Pro. Sure it could work on other hardware, but when you know exactly the hardware you're running on you can do a lot of low-level optimizations you couldn't otherwise do.