Mac pro

The Mac Pro . It is a workstation manufactured by the American company Apple and is based on Intel Xeon processors . Apple introduced the Mac Pro on August 7 of the 2006 WWDC in order to replace the Power Mac G5 , and together with the new Xserve complete the transition to Intel.

Summary

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  • 1 Launch of Mac Pro
    • 1 Technical Specifications (Mac Pro 2006)
  • 2 12-core Mac Pro
    • 1 Architecture
      • 1.1 Capacity
      • 1.2 Virtual cores
      • 1.3 Power
    • 3 External links
    • 4 References

Mac Pro released

The WWDC 2006 had at its inauguration the usual Keynote by Steve Jobs in which the creator of Apple was breaking down the main novelties that he would bring out in the coming months, one of them was the Mac Pro a workstation that offered up to double performance than the Power Mac G5 . With its arrival, all Apple computers already use Intel’s microprocessors, so the alliance between IBM and the apple company is definitively terminated .

Technical Specifications (Mac Pro 2006)

  • Two 2 GHz, 2.66 GHz and 3 GHz Intel Xeon Dual-Coreprocessors
  • 4 MB L2 cache per processor
  • 1 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 ECC memory, expandable up to 16 GB
  • 128-bit SSE Vector Engine
  • NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GTgraphics cards with 256MB of GDDR2 SDRAM, ATI Radeon X1900 XT with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 , also with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM
  • 250GB Serial ATA(3Gb / s) hard drive at 7200 rpm, expandable up to four 500 GB Serial ATA hard drives at 7200 rpm
  • SuperDrive 16x with dual layer media (DVD + R DL / DVD ± RW / CD-RW)
  • Support for up to 8 simultaneous monitors
  • Four PCI Expressslots : one dual-width graphics slot and three full-length expansion slots
  • USB0 ports
  • Two 10/100/1000 Ethernetcards
  • Mighty Mouse and Apple Keyboard
  • Optional AirPort Extrememodule

12 core mac pro

The 12-core Mac Pro released by Apple in 2011 offers more processing power, more graphics performance, and more storage options than its previous versions.

Architecture

Capacity

This Mac Pro is equipped with four 3.5-inch internal hard drive bays that offer plenty of internal storage capacity – up to 8TB when installing four 2TB 3GB / s Serial SATA drives . Each bay has its own independent 3Gb / s channel for quick data access.

Virtual cores

Intel’s Xeon processors support Hyper-Threading Technology , which allows two processes to run at the same time on each core. So, for example, the 12-core Mac Pro features 24 virtual cores that Mac OS X recognizes. This helps improve performance, because with Hyper-Threading technology the processor takes better advantage of the execution resources available in each core.

Power

The Mac Pro incorporates Turbo Boost technology , which dynamically and automatically increases performance by speeding up the processor’s clock speed based on workload. If you’re using an app that doesn’t make use of all cores, Turbo Boost increases the speed of those that are active: up to 3.33 GHz on a 12-core Mac Pro and up to 3.6 GHz on a six-core system.

 

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