Eight-core Mac Pros arrive
To the surprise of exactly no one, Apple announced an update to its Mac Pro workstation PC this morning, moving to eight CPU cores via two, 3.0GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processors. This upgrade doubles the number of processing threads from Apple's available flagship desktop. Pricing for the eight-core model begins at $3,997, although you can still get a quad-core Mac Pro for less. And as usual, Apple is taking orders immediately, with its Web site listing a 3-5 day shipping window.
Apple's Mac Pro gets twice the horsepower with today's upgrade to eight processing cores.
(Credit: CNET)If you'd like a preview of how an eight-core Mac might perform, check out this "unofficial" eight-core Apple post that we did at the end of last year. Intel had a older quad-core Xeon chip that was compatible with the Mac Pro's motherboard, so we swapped in two of them and ran a few multicore benchmarks. As you might suspect, eight cores are indeed better than four, provided you use software that will put all of the cores to work. The chips we tested were only 2.66GHz models, so expect the real eight-core Mac Pro and its 3.0GHz Xeons to perform even better.
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anounced yet and only apple can get them right now. Also, it is highly unlikly
you like PC **** box can handle 16 gb of ram, Vista only adresses 4gb of ram
which i laugh at becasue thats how much i have in my laptop. OSX on the
other hand can adress as much ram as you can put in the system and it also
manages ram differently so it is quicker. Finally dont say the 8800 is better
becase its so good. Try compressing some ******* video with that 8800 crap.
It cant handle real time editing of photos, video, or music to like one tenth
the power as the 4500.
anounced yet and only apple can get them right now. Also, it is highly unlikly
you like PC **** box can handle 16 gb of ram, Vista only adresses 4gb of ram
which i laugh at becasue thats how much i have in my laptop. OSX on the
other hand can adress as much ram as you can put in the system and it also
manages ram differently so it is quicker. Finally dont say the 8800 is better
becase its so good. Try compressing some ******* video with that 8800 crap.
It cant handle real time editing of photos, video, or music to like one tenth
the power as the 4500.
F4500 Is for doing , not gaming, specialized drivers makes hardware acceleration better, it's based on the last gen GPU articuiture, new F4600 is based on 8800 GTX and got i.5 Gigs of ram.
People use NV pro series to render images, etc, not to compress some pirated mp3 file, beside, that's why you got the 8 core CPU.
- So what? Long live Windows.
- by junchao8 April 10, 2007 10:49 AM PDT
- So what? most people can do with a good 2 gigs of ram,also vista x64 bit can handle much more ram.
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(10 Comments)F4500 Is for doing , not gaming, specialized drivers makes hardware acceleration better, it's based on the last gen GPU articuiture, new F4600 is based on 8800 GTX and got i.5 Gigs of ram.
People use NV pro series to render images, etc, not to compress some pirated mp3 file, beside, that's why you got the 8 core CPU.