Mac Pro refresh bumps up the high end: these go to 12 coresPerhaps you're the kind of Mac user who regarded the eight-core Mac Pro and thought "Who would ever need more than eight cores?" In that case, you can skip ahead to the next post, because this morning Apple announced a revised Mac Pro lineup with BTO options for dual 6-core Xeon processors. Yes indeed, 12 cores of pure oomph -- shipping next month.
The tale of the tape: The new quad-core Mac Pro comes in at US$2499 with
one 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon W3530 processor with 8MB of fully-shared L3 cache;
3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 16GB
ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
two Mini DisplayPorts and one DVI (dual-link) port
1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm
18x SuperDrive(R) with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
four PCI Express 2.0 slots
five USB 2.0 ports and four FireWire(R) 800 ports, Bluetooth and 802.11n, keyboard & Magic Mouse
The new 8-core Mac Pro's SRP is $3,499 for the following:
two 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5620 processors with 12MB of fully-shared L3 cache per processor;
6GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM memory, expandable up to 32GB
ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 memory
two Mini DisplayPorts and one DVI (dual-link) port
1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive running at 7200 rpm
18x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
four PCI Express 2.0 slots
five USB 2.0 ports and four FireWire(R) 800 ports, Bluetooth and 802.11n, keyboard & Magic Mouse
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Processor BTO options range from four cores up to the aforementioned 16; the full matrix includes "Westmere" Xeon X5670 chops running at up to 3.33GHz on the single-chip machine and 2.93GHz on the dual-processor model. Only the dual-processor model can achieve dodecacore status.
Mac Pros now offer the ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics processor with 1GB of memory, with a BTO option of the ATI Radeon HD 5870 with 1GB of memory. Display output options include two Mini DisplayPorts and one dual-link DVI port. For storage, the 512GB SSD is now an option, and if you're feeling particularly flush you can load up with four of them.
As noted above, the machines will ship in August; the Apple Store is currently still shipping the older models.TUAWMac Pro refresh bumps up the high end: these go to 12 cores originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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