From 7000 dollars
Apple has finally unveiled its first Mac Pro based on Apple Silicon. Thus, the full transition from Intel CPUs to Apple’s own M platforms is completed, although it took more than two years, which the company originally announced.
Apple, as the rumors claimed, kept the case of the Mac Pro from the previous generation. The main highlight of the new product is the new M2 Ultra platform. This is a monstrous SoC that is up to three times faster than the M1 Ultra in Octane and 50% faster in DaVinci Resolve.
The platform configuration includes a 24-core processor and a 76-core GPU. So far, one can only guess how this SoC is productive in real tasks in comparison with Intel and AMD CPUs. But Apple itself gives this example: the power of the novelty is enough to simultaneously play 22 streams of 8K ProRes video.
Introduced the first Mac Pro at Apple Silicon.
To understand how incredible this solution is, suffice it to say that the Apple M2 Ultra contains… 134 billion transistors! This is more than dedicated server GPUs. The platform also boasts a 32-core NPU, support for six Pro Displays, 800GB/s memory bandwidth, and support for 192GB of RAM. This platform is produced, however, according to the 5 nm process technology, so it obviously consumes a lot.
The new Mac Pro also gets eight Thunderbolt 4 ports, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and all the expansion slots that the previous Mac Pro had.
All this, however, has one curious nuance. The same M2 Ultra SoC is now available in the Mac Studio mini PC. And this means that the Mac Pro has lost the title of the undisputed leader in performance among all Macs. There is nothing more powerful, but at least the same is offered by Mac Studio, although the latter does not have all the expansion capabilities of Mac Pro.
It remains to be added that the Mac Pro after the update starts at $ 7,000.
