Jaromir Miko The way Apple now approaches the new Mac Pro can be described as a new era of transparency. The company has released a really extensive 46-page booklet to Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR. It analyzes not only the devices as such, but also their individual components, down to the smallest detail. Potential and existing users will thus get a really great overview of the device.
In the brochure, Apple presents the Mac Pro as a device that pushes the boundaries of possibility forward. In its highest configuration, the device offers a 28-core processor, 1,5TB of RAM, four graphics chips with a performance of 56 teraflops and a total memory of 128GB. In addition, it can be fitted with an 8TB SSD, offers 10Gb Ethernet, twelve Thunderbolt 3 ports and space for up to eight PCI Express cards, some of which you can use to connect graphics cards or other cards. Also introduced was the Apple Afterburner card for hardware acceleration of ProRes and ProRes RAW video, with the ability to handle up to 6 streams of 8K video.
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Amaya Toman The device offers up to 6,5x more logical performance compared to its predecessor, which was released in late 2012, but due to production problems, its availability improved only in the middle of the following year. In terms of graphics performance, the new Radeon Pro Vega II cards offer up to 6,8 times more performance compared to the dual FirePro D700 chip from the previous generation.
Apple describes in the document that the device offers four PCIe x16 slots, three PCIe x8 slots and one PCIe x4 slot, which houses a special Apple I/O card to increase flexibility when expanding storage or mounting additional cards requiring high transfer speeds. The device also has a T2 Security Chip, which protects data stored on the Mac Pro's internal SSD. It has a built-in AES encryption engine and the ability to write and read sequentially at speeds of up to 3,4GB/s.
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The document further details the individual components, including processors, graphics cards and RAM, and also details the new Promise Pegasus R4i MPX Module add-on, which can be fitted with 32TB of storage (4x 8TB HDD). It also offers a description of the Promise Pegasus J2i card for installing internal JBOD storage. This module can be equipped with two 3,5″ SATA hard drives with a speed of 7200 rpm.
A certain interest in the document is the confirmation that Mac Pro will also be able to fit wheels from other manufacturers. The company itself offers designer wheels for $400. Part of the document also focuses on the Pro Display XDR, which has recently faced criticism for also being not really that much of a Pro, as it might seem. Part of the document also provides an overview of the macOS Catalina system, but focuses mainly on features for professionals.
At the end, the document includes examples of configurations suitable for individual types of activities, such as working with music or non-linear video editing.
