Apple's New Mac Pro Costs $53,000 When You Max Out the Specs

Derangel said:
RTX Quadros are not the only ones Nvidia sells. The GV100, the only Quadro with 32GB of HBM2 memory, is $9000. That said, the $5500 RTX 8000 is actually $300 more than the Radeon Pro Vega II Duo in the Mac Pro. Buying two 8000s would end up costing almost $700 more once you factor in the NVLink Bridge. Though, buying a Vega II Duo MPX module after that fact would be $100 more than buying a single 8000. Going a step down, the non-Duo Vega II is $1600 cheaper than the RTX 6000 ($1200 is buying the MPX module separately).
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Normally, you'd want NV cards anyways so all this Vega stuff is kind of moot. It's kind of ironic because Apple caused the pros to flee their ecosystem suggesting they just don't give af.
 
thesmokingman said:
Normally, you'd want NV cards anyways so all this Vega stuff is kind of moot. It's kind of ironic because Apple caused the pros to flee their ecosystem suggesting they just don't give af.
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As with anything, it totally depends on what the needs of the company in question are. Though, if Nvidia ever decided to support Metal I'd bet Apple would jump to using their cards in a heartbeat.
 
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pendragon1 said:
$8090 https://www.amazon.com/NVIDIA-Quadro-GV100-Volta-Graphics/dp/B07JBQ4DBV
and i didnt bring up quadro, just commented on pricing. relax eh.
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It all comes down to what the system integrator can get away for charging for it. Getting it for MSRP is a win usually when you're getting it included in the system. Dell charges over MSRP for them in the Precision 7920.

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And even more if you want to do it yourself: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/sho...-displayport/apd/aa142511/graphic-video-cards
 
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Bigbacon said:
couldn't you just build a threadripper for way less than that?
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You could. You could also probably build one for more than that, depending on exactly what you threw into it. Though, building custom PCs is not something you see terribly often in the business world and I imagine the production houses that would be more likely to buy the upper end versions of the Mac Pro are not going to be the places where you'd find them.
 
thesmokingman said:
Normally, you'd want NV cards anyways so all this Vega stuff is kind of moot. It's kind of ironic because Apple caused the pros to flee their ecosystem suggesting they just don't give af.
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Davici Resolve runs a lot faster on a VII than on a TITAN, so quad fancy Vegas are really promising.

But for everything else single threaded clockspeed is super important so Threadripper is life.

However, Apple really really fucking hates professionals. More than enough reason to stay away.
 
idiomatic said:
Davici Resolve runs a lot faster on a VII than on a TITAN, so quad fancy Vegas are really promising.

But for everything else single threaded clockspeed is super important so Threadripper is life.

However, Apple really really fucking hates professionals. More than enough reason to stay away.
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I think this Mac Pro shows the opposite. You don’t develop a product like this for a market you don’t want.

The argument for VII vs Quadro is stupid, Apple is working with all lead platforms to bring seamless METAL rendering to their software on MacOS which is more that can be said for Windows and its disjoined clusterF where everyone is doing their own thing making it super inefficient.
 
aokman said:
I think this Mac Pro shows the opposite. You don’t develop a product like this for a market you don’t want.

The argument for VII vs Quadro is stupid, Apple is working with all lead platforms to bring seamless METAL rendering to their software on MacOS which is more that can be said for Windows and its disjoined clusterF where everyone is doing their own thing making it super inefficient.
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They need every bit of performance they can get when running obsolete 14nm Intel stuff.
 
aokman said:
process size has nothing to do with performance...
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Yes it does when you are thermally limited. Dan D wrote a big post about this few weeks ago.

No one is going to run a 400W-600W 10980 in order to reach the performance of a 240W chip from AMD
 
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