Do Apple will cope, creating still only chips for iPhone and iPad, with the development of Intel Xeon processors? Apple Transition Critics on Apple Silicon is sure that there is no. And even M1 did not strike their confidence: it is a toy chip for toy computers, although surprisingly frisky. Intel Xeon is something else. Meanwhile, the network published Mac Pro specifications with Apple Silicon inside, which Apple completes the transition to their own development chips. And the specification, which is surprising, do not amaze the insane steepness, are quite modest and too much strange in them. Although who knows?
In early March 2020, at the invitation of Tim Cook, the executive director of Apple (in 1981 - 1990), Jean-Louis Gassé visited Apple headquarters. He visited the extensively classified group, where apple processors are created: he was also shown heavy-duty chips in action, taking the most powerful Intel Xeon in shreds. According to him, Apple can create processors of any power, for the entire computer line (including Mac Pro), from which this line will only benefit. And due to the best integration of software and hardware in Apple Silicon and their economy, they will not be equal.
Systems-on-crystal (SNK) for Mac Pro he saw. Over SNK, especially the most powerful, Apple has been working for years. And if there is an SNK, they may well be the specification. Mac Pro model range, for one and a half or two years before his announcement, without any doubt, is already thought out and is calculated to the smallest detail. Why not leak up completely secret information protected with special care?
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Mac Pro on Apple Silicon
In the model range of Mac Pro with Apple Silicon inside there will be three models. Capacity of the SSD drive in all of them, by default - 512 GB. The maximum capacity is 8 TB, regardless of the model. Apparently, the SSD container is the only thing that can be changed by the user when ordering. If all this is true, Mac Pro will turn into a very large and powerful iPad - what seems to me unlikely. Another point that cannot be said about: We still do not know how other chips for Mac will be called. What if "M" in M1 denotes the class of "toy chips for toy macs", or "Mobile"? A chip for desktop MACs may not be M2, and D1 or D2 ("Desktop").
Systems-on-chip for professional workstations may well be called, for example, x1, x1s and x1u. The first letter in the title - in honor of Xeon, and "S" and "U" is Super and Ultra.
Mac Pro features on Apple Silicon
Junior model. In the central professor of the system at the chip of the base model 32 kernels. More than in the most meditative version of Mac Pro 2019. But only 24 of them are productive. The remaining 8 is energy efficient. In the graphics processor 32 kernels. Apparently, the graphics processor is integrated into the chip. The basic model with a powerful graphics processor, it seems to choose will not succeed. The size of the combined memory is 64 GB. So in Apple Silicon is a rapid memory with unique capabilities, 64 GB in M1 would be equivalents 128, and even 192 GB - although not in all cases. In the Apple Silicon of the third generation and a special power of 64 GB can be equal to anything, but more interesting: it seems, even during the order of the order, the size of the RAM will not change the size of the RAM. The combined memory and the chip system are inseparablely connected with each other and are in general assembly - upgrade such memory is not subject to default. It will cost this model (in the US, without taking into account taxes and fees) will be $ 5,499. The basic Mac Pro 2019, with 8 cores - $ 500 more expensive. And in it also the SSD container is less than twice.
The Second Mac Pro model on Apple Silicon - middle class. In the central processor - 48 cores, of which 36 are productive. In graphic 64 kernels. 256 GB of unified memory, which, in terms of conventional RAM, almost infinity is almost in all cases. The size of the combined memory, apparently, can not be changed even during the order. In the finished product it is impossible. It will cost all this (in the US, without taking into account taxes and fees) will be 11,999 dollars. So much how much is Mac Pro 2019 with the 24-core Intel Xeon, in the basic configuration.
And the most powerful Mac Pro. About 64 kernels in the central processor first told Jean-Louis Gassé. The prototype with this chip was defiant quickly. At the same time, judging by the indicators of the indicators, it could be accessed to higher frequencies. In the system on the chip used in the model model, in the central processor 64 kernels, of which 48 productive. In the graphics processor 128 cores. 512 GB of unified memory.
How much will Mac Pro cost on arm
Care the most powerful Mac Pro with Apple Silicon inside in the basic configuration will be $ 18,999. One and a half times more expensive than Mac Pro 2019 with 28-core Intel Xeon (12,999 dollars). 18 999 and 12,999 dollars - this is the cost of basic configurations of workstations, with a capacity of SSD drives, respectively, in 512 GB and 256 GB.
There are many controversial and incomprehensible moments - perhaps the source just does not know something or does not agree. Even I could come up with much more consistent specifications. In reality, they are always contradictory in reality - for some reason, we do not know about and do not even suspect. Maybe this is a provocative leak from Apple to study the reaction of potential buyers? In any case, this is the first detailed publication about Mac Pro with Apple Silicon inside. And if they manage to do at least half of what is written here ... Keep me.