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But all of those things you've enumerated are available in a PC - Apple only makes the board and a few smaller unimportant chips that don't affect performance.
by m0zg 7y ago
But all of those things you've enumerated are available in a PC - Apple only makes the board and a few smaller unimportant chips that don't affect performance. You're not comparing apples to oranges when you say that MacPro is faster somehow. It'd run at identical speed given the same CPU, same GPU and same RAM.
- rconti 7y agoWell, you're clearly incorrect, but I don't work in high end video production so I can't give you precise details as to why. Sorry.
- p_l 7y agoThere might be benefit from some of the extra bits available (the specific GPU in Mac Pro is not exactly easy to replicate elsewhere as it's a custom twin GPU setup with extra bus for cooperation with another unit if necessary) + the FPGA codec card that might be exploited by the stuff he does for work. Replacing a software-only codec with hw accelerator card would go a long way to explain performance difference.