Mac Pro cheese grater look Archives
Mac Pro cheese grater look Archives
All-New Design
Function defines form.Every aspect of Mac Pro is designed in pursuit of performance. Built around a stainless steel space frame, an aluminium housing lifts off, allowing for 360-degree access to every component and vast configuration. From there anything is possible.
Learn more about the design of Mac Pro
Processor and Memory
Up to 28 cores of power. Create without constraint.Mac Pro is designed for pros who need the ultimate in CPU performance. From production rendering to playing hundreds of virtual instruments to simulating an iOS app on multiple devices at once, it’s exceedingly capable. At the heart of the system is an Intel Xeon processor with up to 28 cores — the most ever in a Mac. In addition, large L2 and shared L3 caches and 64 PCI Express lanes provide massive bandwidth in and out of the processor.
Engineered to go all out. All the time.
Squeezing every possible iota of performance out of the processor means giving it a lot of power. In this case, over 300 watts. A massive heat sink keeps the system cool, enabling it to run fully unconstrained. Heat pipes move heat away from the chip, dispersing it along aluminium fin stacks. While three axial fans move air through the system.
Forget everything you know about memory.
A multicore workstation processor needs lots of memory to feed it. Featuring six channels of ultrafast ECC memory and 12 physical DIMM slots, Mac Pro allows for up to 1.5TB of memory. So pros working with large projects, analysing huge datasets or running multiple pro applications can make fast work out of all kinds of work. And while typical towers cram memory into hard-to-reach places, Mac Pro uses a two-sided logic board, making it easy to access.
Up to 2933MHz DDR4 ECC memory
Up to 140GB/s of memory bandwidth
Six-channel memory system
12-core previous-generation Mac Pro (baseline)
12-core previous-generation Mac Pro (baseline)
12-core previous-generation Mac Pro (baseline)
12-core previous-generation Mac Pro (baseline)
12-core previous-generation Mac Pro (baseline)
12-core previous-generation Mac Pro (baseline)
12-core previous-generation Mac Pro (baseline)
Expansion
Eight PCI Express expansion slots. Go configure.Mac Pro is designed for pros who need to build high‑bandwidth capabilities into their systems. With four double‑wide slots, three single‑wide slots and one half‑length slot preconfigured with the Apple I/O card, it has twice as many slots as the previous Mac tower. Now you can customise and expand in ways never before possible in a single workstation.
Graphics
Extreme performance. By design.For many pros, a high-performance graphics architecture is critical to their workflows. Especially for tasks like animating 3D film assets, compositing 8K scenes and building lifelike gaming environments. To give them the highest possible performance and take graphics capabilities to a new level, something groundbreaking was required. Introducing the Mac Pro Expansion Module — or MPX Module.
A second connector. An industry first.
The MPX Module starts with an industry-standard PCI Express connector. Then, for the first time in a graphics card, more PCIe lanes integrate Thunderbolt and additional power provided to increase capability. With up to 500 watts, the MPX Module has a power capacity equivalent to that of the entire previous-generation Mac Pro.
Radeon Pro Vega II Duo. Power plus power.
With up to 14 teraflops of compute performance, 32GB of memory and 1TB/s of memory bandwidth, the MPX Module with Radeon Pro Vega II is a powerhouse. For more power, two Radeon Pro Vega II GPUs combine to create the Vega II Duo. With double the graphics performance, memory and memory bandwidth, it’s the world’s most powerful graphics card. The two GPUs are connected through the Infinity Fabric Link, which allows for up to five times faster data transfer between the GPUs. It’s huge for apps that are optimised for multiple GPUs.
The world’s most powerful graphics card. Times two.
Taking power one huge step further, Mac Pro supports configuration of two Radeon Pro Vega II Duo MPX Modules. The four GPUs combine to add up to 56 teraflops and 128GB of high-bandwidth memory. It’s a massive amount of performance built to tackle everything from GPU rendering to machine learning to particle simulations.
Cool. Quiet. Capable.
Most GPUs aren’t conceived as part of an overall system, so they require their own cooling. The MPX Module is designed as an integrated component of Mac Pro. Its form factor enables a larger heat sink, which works in concert with the machine’s internal airflow to quietly dissipate heat. Without a noisy bolted-on fan, heat and decibel levels are kept remarkably low.
The world’s most powerful graphics card, optimal for demanding multi-GPU pro applications.
Two MPX Modules — four GPUs
One MPX Module — two GPUs
Workstation-class graphics ideal for demanding pro applications like video editing, 3D content creation and photo retouching.
Two MPX Modules — two GPUs
One MPX Module — one GPU
Next-generation graphics with 16GB of GDDR6 memory for great all‑round performance with photos, videos and other content.
Two MPX Modules — two GPUs
One MPX Module — one GPU
A next-generation graphics card that pairs performance with power efficiency.
Two MPX Modules — two GPUs
One MPX Module — one GPU
Great all-round performance for non-GPU-intensive applications.
One MPX Module — one GPU
Mac Pro with dual Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
iMac Pro with Radeon Pro Vega 64X
Previous-generation Mac Pro with dual FirePro D700 (baseline)
Mac Pro with dual Radeon Pro Vega II Duo
iMac Pro with Radeon Pro Vega 64X
Previous-generation Mac Pro with dual FirePro D700 (baseline)
Mac Pro with dual Radeon Pro Vega II with Infinity Fabric Link
iMac Pro with Radeon Pro Vega 64X
Previous-generation Mac Pro with dual FirePro D700 (baseline)
Mac Pro with dual Radeon Pro Vega II with Infinity Fabric Link
iMac Pro with Radeon Pro Vega 64X
Previous-generation Mac Pro with dual FirePro D700 (baseline)
Video Editing
Apple Afterburner. Speed through 8K video.Created to transform the workflow for film and video professionals, Afterburner allows you to go straight from camera to timeline, and work natively with 4K and even 8K files from the start. No more time-consuming transcoding, storage overhead or errors during output. Proxy workflows, RIP.
Cut to even more creativity.
Afterburner is a hardware accelerator card built with an FPGA, or programmable ASIC. With over a million logic cells, it can process up to 6.3 billion pixels per second. And when installed in Mac Pro, the system is capable of handling up to six streams of 8K ProRes RAW or 23 streams of 4K ProRes RAW. This means you can free up your cores to enable even more creative effects and processing.
Up to six streams of 8K ProRes RAW video at 30 fps12
Up to 23 streams of 4K ProRes RAW video at 30 fps
Up to 16 streams of 4K ProRes 422 video at 30 fps
Security and Storage
Security taken to new heights.Mac Pro is the most secure tower we’ve ever built. A Secure Enclave coprocessor provides the foundation for encrypted storage and secure boot capabilities. So you can worry less about protecting your work, code and intellectual property. And focus more on doing your best thinking.
Apple T2 Security Chip.
Data on Mac Pro is protected by the Apple T2 Security Chip. It integrates a Secure Enclave coprocessor and discrete controllers into a single chip. It also ensures that the lowest levels of software aren’t tampered with, and that only operating system software trusted by Apple loads at startup.
Up to 8TB of storage.
To deliver the fastest possible performance, Mac Pro is built on an all-flash storage architecture. It starts with a 256GB SSD and is configurable to a 1TB, 2TB, 4TB or 8TB SSD — all encrypted by the T2 Security chip.13
High-Speed Connections
Powerful I/O at hand.Mac Pro has extremely high‑performance I/O — and lots of it. It begins with four Thunderbolt 3 ports, two USB-A ports and two 10Gb Ethernet ports. And with every MPX Module you add, you get more capability. Connect up to 12 4K displays or up to six Pro Display XDRs from Apple and see your work with over 120 million pixels. It’s now easy to expand at will.
Apple's $6,000 'cheese grater' Mac Pro finally has a pre-order date
Apple gave Mac fanatics their first look at the new $6,000 Mac Pro at the Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in July, and after months of speculation on the desktop computer's eventual release date, the day to pre-order the infamous cheese grater–lookin' processor is nigh.
According to TechCrunch, Apple customers received email notifications stating that the Mac Pro will be available to pre-order on Dec. 10, but the emails gave no indication as to when those pre-orders would ship.
When the Mac Pro was first unveiled, many noticed its uncanny resemblance to a cheese grater. The grater-y holes in the desktop tower are actually vents for its fans, which keep the computer quiet and protect it from overheating. That said, it also looks like it could do some serious damage to a block of Parmesan.
SEE ALSO: Twitter reacts to the Apple Mac Pro ‘cheese grater’
From Mashable's earlier reporting on the Mac Pro: "Starting at $5,999, the Mac Pro packs Intel Xeon processors up to 28 cores and 1.2 terabytes of RAM. It also comes with eight PCIe expansion slots and two Radeon Pro Vega II Duo graphics cards."
The $6,000 asking price is only for the computer tower itself. Mashable also reported on the Pro Display XDR, optimized for the Mac Pro, which "features a 32-inch 6K Retina display with 10-bit color, 1,600-nit brightness, and 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio."
The monitor cost starts at $4,999.
Happy grating — I mean creating!
As we learned this week, the 2013 trash can Mac Pro is going to … well … the trash can. Apple has promised a new “modular” Mac Pro for sometime after 2017.
In the light of this news, I thought it would be interesting to look back a model, to the “cheese grater” Mac Pros Apple sold from 2006 until 2013. It was a flexible, expandable, powerful desktop computer.
Imagine that.
(Full resolution version can be downloaded here.)
Early Days
The Mac Pro was introduced at the tail-end of the Mac’s transition to Intel chips back in 2006. It was designed to replace the Power Mac G5, which had been serving pros for several years.
The Mac Pro used the same external case,1 complete with the cheese grater look on the front and back, but the inside was all new, as Phil Schiller spoke about at WWDC 2006:
The new desktop used Intel’s “Woodcrest” Xeon chips, in speeds up to 3.0 GHz, a number that eluded Apple and IBM in the PowerPC days. Schiller praised the Xeons for being far more efficient than the G5. The Mac Pro offered twice the performance of the Power Mac G5 while running much cooler, and without the need of the kilowatt power supply in the quad-core G5.
This efficiency allowed Apple to drastically redesign the interior of the Mac Pro:
The G5 required a system of nine computer-controlled fans, and later models came complete with liquid cooling modules. The Xeons ran cooler, so Apple had more room for goodies.
The Mac Pro came with 4 hard drive carriers. A user just had to screw a hard drive to the carrier and slide it into place for the system to see it. For those who wanted it, a second optical drive could be installed as well.
Like the G5, it came with 8 RAM slots and was upgraded to a total of four PCI Express slots as well.
When the Mac Pro first went on sale, Apple offered a single SKU for $2,499:
- 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-core Xeon
- 1 GB RAM
- 250 GB Hard Drive
- NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT GPU
- 16X SuperDrive
The Mac Pro could be configured in countless ways on Apple’s online store, of course, with faster (or slower) Xeons, more RAM and storage, a better card, AirPort and Bluetooth cards and a second SuperDrive.
The 8-Core Mac Pro
All of the original Mac Pros were quad-core machines, but in April 2007, Apple launched a new high-end model at $3,997.
This Mac Pro used Intel’s “Clovertown” Xeons and ran at 3.0 Ghz.
The Good Years
The Mac Pro saw updates in January 2008, then again in March 2009 and July 2010. With each revision, the tower became more powerful, moving from “Harpertown” chips in 2008 to “Bloomfield” and “Gainestown” in 2009. By the time 2010 rolled around, Apple was offering three SKUs in its Good/Better/Best arrangement. These machines used “Bloomfield,” “Gulftown” and “Westmere” Xeons, respectively.
The Early 2008 Mac Pro was the first to officially support 32 GB RAM, even though users were having luck with that much memory with older machines.
The Early 2009 Mac Pro brought with it Intel’s Nehalem architecture. While the clock speeds don’t show it, these towers were noticeably faster, especially for multi-threaded applications. They also supported higher RAM ceilings than earlier models, as the quad-core machines could address a whopping 128 GB of memory.
The Mid 2010 model is the oldest Mac Pro supported by macOS Sierra. Apple introduced a $4,999 12-core model for the first time in this generation, as well as a build-to-order option for a SSD.
Mac Pro Server
The Mid 2010 Mac Pro had a sibling: the Mac Pro Server. Announced in November 2010 as a semi-replacement for the outgoing Xserve, this tower came with a license for Mac OS X Server, a 2.8GHz quad-core processor, 8GB of RAM and two 1 TB hard drives. Apple would also ship a version of the Mid 2012 Mac Pro with the Server designation.
The Decline
2011 marked the first time that Apple “missed” its schedule for Mac Pro updates, and users noticed. Here’s Marco Arment in 2011, responding to a report that Apple was questioning the need for a Mac Pro:
The Mac Pro was a tough sell to anyone but the most demanding users even in 2008. Today, even fewer buyers can justify it and it’s a worse deal relative to the rest of the Mac line. The Xeon E5 isn’t going to help either problem.
I bet we’ll see a minor Mac Pro update to use the E5 CPUs whenever they’re available (probably within the next few months). But it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the last Mac Pro. It had a great run, but the tower is over.
Around this time, the iMac was making great strides, as I wrote in May of the same year:
The Mac Pro used to be the obvious choice for anyone who needed power or expandability. It really was a no brainer. If you need brawn, Apple’s only tower was the only choice.
Clearly, the first factor has become less of a differentiator as iMacs have become increasingly powerful. There are very few things that an iMac can’t do smoothly at this point. While some still need all 12 cores that the muscular Mac Pro offers, the Sandy Bridge chipset in Apple’s all-in-one is enough horsepower for just about everyone. People that just barely needed a Mac Pro for the power would be fine getting an iMac now. The new desktop can even support two displays out, something that only the Mac Pro could boast until this week.
2011 came to an end with no new Mac Pro, and by the spring of 2012, people were freaking out.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper…
In June 2012, Apple updated the cheese grater Mac Pro one last time.
Updated may be too strong of a word, as James Galbraith wrote for Macworld:
The new Mac Pros released at WWDC 2012 represent a speed bump, plain and simple. The new Mac Pros use the same, highly-upgradable case design, the same graphics cards, and even the same version of USB as the last iteration. And while the Macworld Lab’s test results show the new Mac Pros to be considerably faster than those systems the new Mac Pros replace, it is hard to swallow new “pro” systems that lack Apple’s fastest connection, Thunderbolt, released on MacBook Pros 16 months ago, and USB 3.0 support that arrived on the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.
The machine was met with such dismay that Tim Cook wrote this in a customer email the same day they were released:
Although we didn’t have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today’s event, don’t worry as we’re working on something really great for later next year. We also updated the current model today.
That “really great” machine is the one the company just apologized for and then said it was replacing.
Time really is a flat circle.
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