6-Core Version of Apple's New Mac Pro Appears in Benchmarks

[friedmud]

BTW - for those wondering what kind of monitors to use with these machines... we recently bought some of these:

http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-PQ321Q-3...TF8&qid=1384355863&sr=8-3&keywords=4k+monitor

We're currently using them with beefy Linux boxes with Quadro K6000 cards in them for scientific visualization purposes - and they work great.

I'm thinking of picking up a couple to plug into these new Mac Pros when they come out...

 

[kirkbross]

Save me from having to surf every page of this thread... is there a speculated "base" price for a 12 core?

 

[Nugget]

Save me from having to surf every page of this thread... is there a speculated "base" price for a 12 core?

Why should we care about saving your time if you don't value ours?

 

[kirkbross]

Why should we care about saving your time if you don't value ours?

Because I am Awesome-O and deserve the complete and unctuous reverence that I believe I deserve, but don't necessarily command?

But seriously, you would have spent less time typing the six characters for a price... five if you left out the comma.

 

[Nugget]

But seriously, you would have spent less time typing the six characters for a price... five if you left out the comma.

Sure, but this way your behavior is not rewarded and perhaps, in the future, we'll be spared threads turning into the same question asked and answered on every page.

 

[kirkbross]

Sure, but this way your behavior is not rewarded and perhaps, in the future, we'll be spared threads turning into the same question asked and answered on every page.

You will never be spared that I'm afraid...

The closest this thread gets to my answer is speculation on $500 per additional core. I suppose I could have deduced that from the two given prices.



I will predict the pricing myself, for future self-entitled and lazy readers like myself:

8 core base = $4,999
12 core base = $6,999

 

[Nugget]

I will predict the pricing myself, for future self-entitled and lazy readers like myself

Sadly, they'll never see it, as soon as we move on to page 9.

 

[milo]

At this point pricing of other configurations is just a wild guess anyway.

 

[GregOhMy]

The problem is that Adobe's suite of applications can still really only take advantage of four cores. Adding more can actually slow them down in some cases, so the quad-core consumer grade CPUs are often going to be faster for this sort of work. (as they're a generation ahead and an individual core is faster)

Is this really true? If I am using Adobe Photoslop for pixel pushing, am I best with the quad core and loading up on RAM and Scratchdisk space?

If you're using Apple or other software for your photo workflow, I'd consider switching, as that will be slowing you down a lot. Unless you do pixel editing on your images, Lightroom is enough for most photography-related tasks, and the workflow is a lot better for photographers than Photoshop.

Workflow for me is fine in Bridge Photoslop since I am doing a ton of retouching and pixel pushing, but I am also starting to do more video for clients with some mild editing there. Is there no advantage to loading up with an 8 or 12 core?