It has AMD Radeon graphics and an Intel Xeon chip, so the cost of the Mac Pro is going to be highly dependent on what Intel and AMD are charging Apple for their components. Now, some will rightfully point out that the 2019 Mac Pro uses non-Apple hardware pretty much throughout.
It's one thing for a next-gen Pro workstation to hit the scene and make your very expensive purchase four years ago look downright weak in contrast, but a Mac mini? If I'd bought a Mac Pro in 2019 or 2020, it'd be the last Mac Pro product I ever bought from Apple, simply out of pique. Processor roadmaps take years to plan, and while there's going to be some degree of obsolescence risk whenever you buy any computer, this has to be a gut punch for a lot of people who bought a Mac Pro.
What's so shocking about these results is that Apple must have known in 2019 that Apple Silicon was just around the bend. Apple had to know its lower-level 2019 Mac Pro configs were going to quickly become obsolete It's therefore likely that most users were at least a bit more restrained in their spec choices and budget, and they are the ones who are most likely to get burned by this new comparison. You simply can't compete with two industrial-grade discrete GPUs and 1.5TB of RAM.īut that configuration runs you about $50,000 right now on Apple's website, and few people would be ready to put down that much cash on a workstation outside of a major Hollywood studio. To be clear, this system would absolutely destroy anything on the market right now, including the Apple Mac Studio with M1 Ultra. Worse still, it was an absolutely shocking 40% faster than the Afterburner-powered Mac Pro in exporting 4K ProRes RAW video to ProRes, which is exactly the kind of workload that you'd spend $15,000 to do as quickly as possible in an industry setting.Ī fully configured Mac Pro can come with a 28-core Intel Xeon W processor, two AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo GPUs with a total of 128GB GDDR6 VRAM, and 1.5TB of DDR4 ECC memory. Despite that, the Mac mini was roughly 50% faster creating HDR photos in Photoshop and 44% faster compiling an Xcode project.
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