$52k gets you: - A 2019-era 28-core/56-thread Xeon W that considerably outbenches a contemporary Ryzen Threadripper but isn't anywhere close to a current one.

$52k gets you: - A 2019-era 28-core/56-thread Xeon W that considerably outbenches a contemporary Ryzen Threadripper but isn't anywhere close to a current one. - Two linked Radeon Pro W6800X Duos, with each Duo having 2x32GB GDDR6 GPUs - A $2,000 Mac Pro-exclusive, ProRes-decoding-only FPGA accelerator card to simultaneously playback six 8k/30fps ProRes RAW video streams, or 23 RAW or 16 422 streams at 4K, in FCPX and a few other video editing and transcoding apps - 1.5TB of DDR4 ECC RAM - 8TB SSD - Wheels instead of feet Some of these things are almost redundant. The Afterburner accelerator is a better value on a lower-end Mac Pro because its benefits are narrow and often on CPU-bound work. And the wheels are still a $400 option on a new Mac Pro. Your 7950X is a fantastic value at about 2/3 the raw performance of a 5995WX that costs considerably more. You probably don't have or need 1.5TB of RAM, but tasks dealing with multiterabyte-scale data sets (genomics!) can find a use for it. Your RTX 4080 is great for nearly all applications but short by about 8-64GB of RAM from the kinds of rendering or very large language model training that the target audience of a $52k Mac Pro might want to do with it.