![]() ![]() None of this should come as a surprise, though. ![]() And for those still using Apple workflows, the Mac Studio now provides the same power as the Mac Pro at a fraction of the price. For extreme users, PC is and has been the way to go thanks to more extensive upgrade support and CUDA acceleration in many demanding apps, and the new Mac Pro doesn’t change that. The days of Mac Pros dominating rendering bays have passed, starting in 2013 with the “trash can” design slip that it feels like Apple hasn’t fully recovered from. Will we have to wait another four years for another Mac Pro revision? I don’t know, but that’s a gamble that will cost you between $7,000 and $12,000. Apple updates its other Macs on a nearly annual basis, though, allowing you plenty of opportunities to upgrade. That’s par for the course in the world of PC hardware, and especially so for Macs. The Mac Pro may compete with the PC hardware of today, but it will likely be outclassed by the end of the year, and certainly by next year. Apple only lists the 2019 Mac Pro on their compatibility list, and due to the fact that the M2 Ultra has a GPU on board, it probably won’t play nicely with a discrete GPU slotted into the system. It doesn’t look like these modules will work with the new Mac Pro. You could even upgrade the RAM in the 2019 Mac Pro, which is an idea Apple has abandoned with the 2023 model. These expensive upgrades would slot into open PCIe slots, allowing you to upgrade the graphics card or add a RAID array to your Mac Pro. With the 2019 Mac Pro, you didn’t have the same flexibility to upgrade as a PC, but Apple made an effort with its MPX modules. The M2 Ultra you buy is what you’re stuck with. If you were hoping to upgrade it in the future, you’re out of luck. One step forward, two steps back Appleįollowing the announcement of the Mac Pro, Apple revealed that you wouldn’t be able to add a graphics card to any of the six open PCIe Gen4 slots. The problem is that you don’t have a chance to upgrade your hardware in the Mac Pro. It even has some unique advantages, such as up to 192GB of memory and Apple’s Media Engine. Right now, the M2 Ultra competes with the best PC hardware on the market, even if it falls behind in some apps like Blender (where Nvidia cards are overwhelmingly faster). The RTX 4090, for reference, cracks 13,000. Double that, and you’re around 4,000, which is slower than even the RTX 4060 Ti. The median score for the 38-core M2 Max in Blender is 1,918. Double the M2 Max score, and you’re at that level. In PugetBench for Premiere Pro, the M2 Max achieves a score of around 700, while an RTX 4090 rig with a high-end processor can reach up to 1,500. Outside of theoretical performance, the M2 Ultra still looks impressive. Double that, and add a little extra to account for the fact that the M2 Ultra isn’t squeezed inside a 14-inch laptop, and you’re nearing CPU performance on the level of Intel’s Core i9-13900K. In our testing, it reached around 15,000 in Cinebench’s multi-core test. Up to now, we’ve only seen the M2 Max inside the 14-inch MacBook Pro. We don’t have concrete performance numbers, but we can extrapolate. Even the $600 M2 Mac Mini beats the previous-gen Mac Pro into the ground. There’s great news if you want to buy Apple’s 15-inch MacBook AirĪpple may be forced to change the Vision Pro headset’s nameĪpple’s cheaper version of Vision Pro headset could be years awayĪpple says that the M2 Ultra is up to three times faster than the fastest Intel-based Mac Pro overall, and up to seven times faster than the starting configuration of the previous Intel-based Mac Pro.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |