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Another Mac Pro configuration [1]: Available in December at $3,999 6-Core and Dual GPU 3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 processor 16GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory D

• wmf 13y ago
  The 12-core configuration is conspicuously absent. $10,000?
  • 1qaz2wsx3edc 13y ago
    I doubt we'll see one. Not only that but the suspect geekbench scores for the new Mac Pro are timid. Apple is hurting the Pro line. If they just gave it a normal form factor and the best current hardware, I think it would be a better people pleaser. This is a mac-mini on steroids and I'm disappointed.
    • wmf 13y ago
      Apple announced 12 cores at WWDC, so I'm assuming it will ship but they just don't want to tell us the price.
  • guelo 13y ago
    A somewhat more informative specs page is up now and it mentions 12-core configurations, http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/ http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/
  • Arjuna 13y ago
    They also did not list the 8-core configuration pricing. There appear to be a current total of 4 available core configurations: 1: 4-core 3.7GHz for $2,999 2: 6-core 3.5GHz for $3,999 3: 8-core 3.0GHz for ? 4: 12-core 2.7GHz for ?
  • chm 13y ago
    So is the 8 core. I suspect they'll simply offer two "base" models, from which you can select an option to double the number of processors, and thus cores. Just like you can select a different processor on a MBP.
• fein 13y ago
  Where on earth is the info about the d300 and d500 from AMD? The only mention I can find of either is the Mac Pro articles.
  • nsxwolf 13y ago
    Only specs available are on the Apple site: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/ http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/ These are Apple specific SKUs from AMD. Deliberately done to prevent easy comparisons with the existing FirePro cards. AMD doesn't want their $3000+ per card customers to know that they handed over these chips to Apple at or below cost.
    • wtallis 13y ago
      It may just be that Apple's using the branding that AMD will be introducing with the workstation counterparts for the R9 series - the switch from 4-digit models to 3-digit seems to fit. Based on the announced core counts, bandwidth, and TFLOPs, it looks like the D300 is the counterpart to the R9 270X but clocked at 780/1250 instead of 1000/1400; the D500 is a new configuration of Tahiti with the shader count of the 7870XT but keeping the 384-bit memory bus, and likely clocked at ~716/1250; and the D700 is counterpart to the R9 280X clocked at 850/1375 instead of 850/1500. The main takeaway is that they aren't going to be offering a Mac Pro with a pair of the upcoming Hawaii GPUs that are twice the size of Tahiti and have a 512-bit memory bus.
    • beedogs 13y ago
      It shouldn't really matter, considering FirePro cards are just 7970s with a different firmware and driver set. The silicon is identical.
  • ptomato 13y ago
    Judging from the available specs, it seems likely the D300 is a modified version of this: http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/ati-firepro-3d/v7900/Pages/v7900.aspx http://www.amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/ati-fire...