After years of waiting, Apple has taken advantage of the keynote inaugural WWDC 2023 for introduceFinally, the Mac Pro. As the company had timidly anticipated, the new Mac Pro is Apple’s most powerful computer to date, and it does so at the hands of Apple Silicon and the recently introduced M2 Ultra.
Without changing the previous design, which allows it to be used both horizontally and in a rack format, Apple has updated the interior of the Mac Pro with new chips and more capacity for professional users. The leap to Apple Silicon of the Mac Pro means that, de facto, the entire range of Mac products have completed their transition to Apple’s own chips.
The new Mac Pro is, without synthesis, a vitaminized Mac Studio with PCIe capacity, but which shares part of the essence of the also updated professional desktop computer.
Mac Pro completes transition to Apple Silicon
Like the Studio, the Mac Pro comes with M2 Ultra, which offers a 24-core CPU and up to 76 GPU cores, which according to Apple is a 3x jump from the previous Mac Pro with Intel in terms of CPU and up to 7 times in capacity for GPU. The neural capabilities of the M2 Ultra also mean that Apple’s professional team has made the leap to 32 cores, which means up to 31.6 trillion operations per second. Its specifications are complemented by the possibility of mounting up to 192GB of unified memory.
In terms of connectivity, it includes three USB-A ports, two higher-bandwidth HDMI ports that support resolution up to 8K and 240Hz, two 10Gb Ethernet ports, and a headphone jack that allows the use of high-end headphones. impedance. Also a dual 10Gb Ethernet ports, 8 Thunderbolt 4 ports and the possibility of connecting up to six Pro Display XDRs to the equipment. Similar to the Studio, the Pro offers six of those Thunderbolt ports on the back and two on the top. They complement the wireless connectivity Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.
The big difference with the Mac Studio is that the Mac Pro offers 6 PCIe slots so that professionals can connect other hardware directly to the Mac Pro, and it is undoubtedly its biggest differentiator.
The Mac Pro is up for pre-order now and will be available starting next week starting at $6,999 in its base configuration.
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