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I have not yet seen any speculation about what a full spec mac pro might cost but I would not be surprised if it approaches 100k$. It can also connect to up to

by aloer 7y ago

I have not yet seen any speculation about what a full spec mac pro might cost but I would not be surprised if it approaches 100k$. It can also connect to up to 6 screens for 5k$ which means this thing might go up to 130k$ in price, fully specced The mac pro itself might have never been meant for everyone. Most of the people in the "pro" group didn't know or didn't care that they might only be on the lower end in terms of "proness" and asked for a new mac pro anyways. But I guess Apple considers them already well served with the iMac pro. Previously I thought the iMac pro would be phased out as soon as a real mac pro is introduced but perhaps Apple will keep it around now.

snazz 7y ago
A hundred thousand dollars? Where are you getting that from? It has got to be expensive, but $6k base ($12k with monitor and stand) to $130k fully specced seems exceedingly unlikely. Are the GPUs and 28-core Xeon that expensive? What component causes the sudden jump in price?
- jvzr 7y ago
  1.5 TB ECC RAM for a start. Then the 4 Vega II GPU cards. Add to that the Afterburner card, a terabyte or more of native SSD storage, and possibly more PCIe SSD storage through MPX slot. Yeah, I think you will hit that very easily! Edit: I couldn't find a single 128 GB DDR4 ECC 2993 MHz DIMM, but the closest I found is the 128 GB DDR4 ECC 2400 MHz DIMM at 2249.99 a piece. Now imagine 12 of those, at higher frequency, with the usual Apple markup. That's already 30 to 40K alone.
  - snazz 7y ago
    Okay, you’re not that far off. A similar HP Z8/G4 machine would come in at $53,325, so I could see the Mac with monitors nearing $100,000.
- aloer 7y ago
  I used the hp workstation configurator for their highest priced tier and added 28c Xeon and ram and single v100 and it came out at 56k. I assume the Vega II duo x2 at 28 tflop will be similar to 4x v100 each at 9k so going from there it’s already at 84k. Add a little extra because it’s apple and I could see it pushing 100k

by aloer 7y ago

snazz 7y ago

A hundred thousand dollars? Where are you getting that from? It has got to be expensive, but $6k base ($12k with monitor and stand) to $130k fully specced seems exceedingly unlikely. Are the GPUs and 28-core Xeon that expensive? What component causes the sudden jump in price?

jvzr 7y ago
1.5 TB ECC RAM for a start. Then the 4 Vega II GPU cards. Add to that the Afterburner card, a terabyte or more of native SSD storage, and possibly more PCIe SSD storage through MPX slot. Yeah, I think you will hit that very easily! Edit: I couldn't find a single 128 GB DDR4 ECC 2993 MHz DIMM, but the closest I found is the 128 GB DDR4 ECC 2400 MHz DIMM at 2249.99 a piece. Now imagine 12 of those, at higher frequency, with the usual Apple markup. That's already 30 to 40K alone.
- snazz 7y ago
  Okay, you’re not that far off. A similar HP Z8/G4 machine would come in at $53,325, so I could see the Mac with monitors nearing $100,000.
aloer 7y ago
I used the hp workstation configurator for their highest priced tier and added 28c Xeon and ram and single v100 and it came out at 56k. I assume the Vega II duo x2 at 28 tflop will be similar to 4x v100 each at 9k so going from there it’s already at 84k. Add a little extra because it’s apple and I could see it pushing 100k