Apple is updating to the Mac Pro with new graphics card modules on Tuesday, that includes choices based mostly on the AMD Radeon Professional W6000 collection. The corporate claims the brand new Radeon Professional W6800X MPX Module, Radeon Professional W6800X Duo MPX Module, and Radeon Professional W6900X MPX module ought to support efficiency for the graphics-heavy tasks Apple designed the Pro around. Persevering with to help the Professional by bringing new GPU choices to Apple’s customized Mac Professional Enlargement Module (MPX) system is a fairly good signal that the corporate stays dedicated to its new, modular design.
AMD first announced the new graphics cards in June this year, with the promise that the W6800 would deliver “as much as 79 p.c quicker efficiency than the earlier technology.” Now just a little over two months later, Apple claims in some {cases} the GPUs of their MPX varieties can get “as much as 84 p.c quicker efficiency when operating Octane X” and “as much as 23 p.c quicker efficiency when utilizing DaVinci Resolve.”
The GPU modules vary in worth per the listings on Apple’s retailer shared under, and every provides an extra 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports and an HDMI 2.0 port, whatever the model:
- Radeon Professional W6800X MPX Module: an extra $2,400 “with 32GB of GDDR6 reminiscence delivering as much as 512GB/s reminiscence bandwidth…[and] as much as 16.0 teraflops of single-precision or 32.0 teraflops of half-precision computing.”
- Radeon Professional W6800X Duo MPX Module: an extra $4,600 for 2 linked GPUs, “every with 32GB of GDDR6 reminiscence delivering as much as 512GB/s reminiscence bandwidth … [and] as much as 30.2 teraflops of single-precision or 60.4 teraflops of half-precision computing” when two modules put in collectively.
- Radeon Professional W6900X MPX Module: an extra $5,600 “with 32GB of GDDR6 reminiscence delivering as much as 512GB/s reminiscence bandwidth … [and] as much as 22.2 teraflops of single-precision or 44.4 teraflops of half-precision computing.”
Apple says the brand new GPU modules will substitute the earlier AMD Radeon Professional Vega II MPX Modules within the configure-to-order choices on Apple’s web site, and as standalone kits. As a part of this new module launch Apple can be particularly phasing out the AMD Radeon Professional Vega II Duo MPX Module and AMD Radeon Professional Vega II MPX Module, however will nonetheless provide each in standalone kits for present clients.