Amaya Toman Apple's new Mac Pro has been on sale for some time now. The price of this computer in the highest configuration can climb up to more than 1,5 million crowns. The most powerful version of this machine for professionals is equipped with a 28-core Intel Xeon W processor with a core clock of 2,5 GHz, 1,5TB (12x128GB) RAM DDR4 ECC, a pair of Radeon Pro Vega II Duo graphics cards with HBM2 memory 2x32GB and up to 8TB SSD. However, Mac Pro achieves respectable performance even in its basic version at the lowest configuration.
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Dan Pražák It is no easy task to fully utilize the memory of such a bloated computer, but Jonathan Morrison recently successfully managed it. The load test was carried out by launching literally thousands of windows with the Google Chrome web browser, which can really take a toll on computers in some cases. Morisson "boasted" on his Twitter account late last week that Google Chrome was using a whopping 75GB of memory on his computer. He decided to put his Mac Pro's capabilities to the test and started adding more and more open Chrome windows.
When the number of open browser windows exceeded three thousand, Chrome was using 126GB of memory. With the number of 4000 and 5000, the amount of used memory rose to 170GB, which the Mac Pro still remained relatively stable in the maximum configuration. The turning point came with six thousand open windows. Memory usage skyrocketed to 857GB, and Morrison expressed concern that his Mac Pro would even be able to handle such a load. Morrison's last post to the closely watched thread talked about 1401,42 GB of memory used and was accompanied by the comment "Code Red". If you don't want to go through the whole twitter thread, you can watch the stress test in this video.
"However, the Mac Pro achieves respectable performance even in its basic version at the lowest configuration." Can it really achieve respectable performance with an ordinary 8-core and 32GB RAM for 120 CZK?
Well, when you compare it with Core2duo.
Yes, then yes, but then again, Apple got the decade wrong, didn't it? ???
If intel xenon w is an ordinary processor, then tell me what you have in your workstation. ??
2x Intel Xeon Platinum Scalable 8180
Well, I wouldn't say that they are ordinary, they are below average and today they are completely insufficient and overpriced. I don't have a high-performance workstation, but only a desktop for a couple of thousand with 8C/16T, 16GB RAM, 1,5TB SSD, but I can get up to 32C/64T, which is a very famous mac for a million and max 28C thanks to great intel ;-) Today, making a workstation on something other than AMD is complete nonsense...