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The product's other selling point is the brightness. Nevertheless, it can project high-contrast colors and deep blacks on par with OLED screens, based on what we saw at WWDC. Interestingly, Apple opted to use LCD panel technology-not OLED-to create the monitor. The Pro Display XDR is a 6K screen with a 6,016-by-3,384-pixel native resolution. One Very Prime PanelĬomplementing the refreshed hardware is an upcoming 32-inch Apple monitor. The new Mac Pros will start at $5,999-or twice the cost of the 2013 model. At WWDC, the company only let journalists and developers look at the Mac Pro no touching allowed.īut Apple clearly went out of its way to create a powerhouse workstation to fit any conceivable need among heavy-duty users.
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We'll have to wait until we get the Mac Pro into PC Labs to really judge performance. So the company resorted to placing a bunch of holes across the outer aluminum casing to maximize airflow, and three huge fans pull in air through the perforated front. (Apple doesn't specify which exact CPU is that peak model, but judging by the 2.5GHz base clock, it looks like the Xeon W-3275 or W-3275M.) Plus, you can opt for a single-GPU ("Radeon Pro Vega II") card or a dual-GPU ("Radeon Pro Vega II Duo") card in each of the potential two MPX modules, which can net you up to four GPUs and up to 128GB of video memory, with 32GB from each GPU.Īll that power also means the system needs plenty of cooling. But you can max out a machine with a 28-core Intel Xeon W. The base-model Mac Pro starts with an eight-core 3.5GHz Intel Xeon W processor.
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Still, the product is built using industry standards, so owners should be able to upgrade the Intel chips over time if they feel comfortable digging into the computer's motherboard. One area where Apple won't offer upgrades to the new Mac Pro is with the Intel Xeon processors you'll configure these at time of purchase. The card will also accelerate the ProRes and ProRes RAW codecs in supported software, such as Final Cut Pro X.
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Owners can also add Apple's custom-made Afterburner video-editing card-another modular component-which can let you play back three 8K video streams simultaneously. The company plans to sell them as modular components, including the AMD Radeon GPUs and SSD storage. You'll also be able to buy the upgrades from Apple. (The "grater" front is all about maximizing inbound airflow for what could be some truly outrageous component loadouts.) Instead, the new model looks more like a standard desktop tower (more along the lines of the old Power Mac desktops), making it easier to swap in off-the-shelf components. The result is a machine that looks nothing like the last Mac Pro, which sported a rounded, canister-like shell. So the company focused on providing a solid foundation on which owners can build using modular parts.
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(Full specs can be found on Apple's website Apple notes that the actual installable RAM maximum is 1TB or 2TB, the latter with the two highest-end Xeon CPU choices.)Īpple designed the Mac Pro to address any and all needs from professional users, such as software engineers, graphic designers, and data scientists. The new Intel Xeon-based motherboard has 12 DIMM slots, which can be configured with up to 768GB or 1.5TB of RAM, depending on the CPU chosen. The refreshed model has eight PCI Express slots-more than double the number on the last Mac Pro-so you can slide in additional graphics cards or other expansion cards, and use some new modular carrier hardware (which Apple dubs "MPX Modules") to outfit the machine with up to four extremely high-end workstation-grade GPUs.