TechnesstivityApple Unveils The Next Generation Mac Pro
Apple, yesterday at its WWDC event showed us alongside its latest iOS7, the successor to the MacPro line. The new machine took a bold new redesign and boasts some very impressive specs under the hood.
- Design
The design has morphed from a rectangular silver tower to a shiny 9inch black cylindrical tower. It has a motion sensor so when it is turned to reveal the ports at the back, the ports automatically light up for visibility.
- Power Structure
Engineered around workstation graphics with dual GPUs, PCI Express-based flash storage, high-performance Thunderbolt 2, new-generation Xeon processors, ultrafast memory, and support for 4K video, the new Mac Pro delivers state-of-the-art performance across the board.
- Processor
The new Mac Pro is said to be upto 2 times faster than the previous generation packing the new-generation Intel Xeon E5 chipset. With configurations offering up to 12 cores of processing power, up to 40GB/s of PCI Express gen 3 bandwidth, and 256-bit-wide floating-point instructions,
- Memory
It includes a four-channel DDR3 memory controller running at 1866MHz. It delivers up to 60GB/s of memory bandwidth up from the current 30GB/s the current line offers, which means you can fly through even the most compute-intensive tasks in no time. And since it’s ECC memory, your render job, video export, or simulation won’t be stopped by transient memory errors.
- Graphics
Its features a state-of-the-art AMD FirePro workstation-class GPU with up to 6GB of dedicated VRAM — it features two of them. With all that power, you’ll be able to do things like seamlessly edit full-resolution 4K video while simultaneously rendering effects in the background — and still have enough power to connect up to three high-resolution 4K displays. It packs upto 7 teraflops of computing power compared to the 2.7 teraflops.
- Storage
No exact storage size was given aside from the type of storage that will be used. It will come with the next-generation PCI Express flash storage which is up to 2.5 times faster than the fastest SATA-based solid-state drive and up to 10 times faster than a 7200-rpm SATA hard drive.
Other features include a unified thermal core for maximum airflow from the center and out through the top of the machine. six Thunderbolt 2/Firewire ports which is 2 times as fast with 20Gb/s of bandwidth to each external device. four USB 3 ports, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and a HDMi port.
The Mac Pro was unveiled as a sneak peak and is said to be coming later this year without an actual date. What do you think about this beastly desktop. Leave you comments below.
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