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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. De
by 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 agoIt 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 agoIt shouldn't really matter, considering FirePro cards are just 7970s with a different firmware and driver set. The silicon is identical.