Ultra-powerful Mac Pro finally gets Apple silicon treatment
Apple's Pro machine gets the M2 treatment with new release.
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After three years, Apple has finally completed its Mac transition to Apple silicon, with a brand new Mac Pro. Designed for the most power-hungry users, the Mac Pro is Apple’s most powerful machine. And after WWDC 2023, it’s powered by the M2 series for more power than ever before.
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Mac Pro is powered by the M2 Ultra chipset, just like the new Mac Studio, with 134 billion transistors. You’ll get 192GB of unified memory from a 24-core CPU and 76-core GPU. The memory bandwidth impresses, at 800GB/s. The 32-core Neural Engine will handle computational tasks without breaking a sweat. And since this machine is built for Pros, you can hook it up to six Pro Display XDR monitors.
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And in true Mac Pro fashion, the machine is modular – you can beef it up after you’ve bought it. On the new desktop machine, you’ll get 7 PCIe Gen 4 slots, eight Thunderbolt 4 ports, and support for 22 streams of 8K ProRes content. Audio pros can add DSP cards for digital signal processing, while video pros can add SDI cards for a serial digital interface.
There’s a rack mount available, so you can hook up the desktop in whatever way works best. It supports the latest in connectivity, with Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 support. For wired connections, there are three USB-A ports, two higher-bandwidth HDMI ports, two 10Gb Ethernet ports, and a high-impedance headphone jack.
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Things are a little pricier here, but you get the performance to match. The new Mac Pro starts from $6999/£7199, and will be available to order from today. Orders will begin shipping next week.