Just wondering what the new Mac Pro clock speeds would be?
If they use the upcoming E5 Xeon 1600 and 2600 then the 1600 models will be similar to these.
http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2013/...idge-E_extreme_CPUs_to_launch_in_Q3_2013.html
So something like
E5 1620 v2 3.7 GHz 4 cores ( up 0.1 GHz from v1 )
E5 1650 v2 3.4 GHz 6 cores ( up 0.2 GHz from v1 )
E5 1660 v2 3.6 GHz 6 cores ( up 0.1 GHz from v1 )
Likewise on the 2600 side. Probably see mostly 0.1 bumps and some 0.2 bumps in clock on a few select much higher priced offerings. However, the focus likely to be on across the board jumps in core count. So instead of what would have been with v1
E5 2620 2.0 GHz 6 cores
E5 2640 2.5 GHz 6 cores
E5 2665 2.4 GHz 8 cores
The v2's will likely look like ( just smallest clock bump. Haven't been many leaks so far here. )
E5 2620 v2 2.1 GHz 8 cores
E5 2640 v2 2.6 GHz 8 cores
E5 2665 v2 2.5 GHz 10 cores
Intel might push the 2620 in the same direction where the 1620 went and hold the core count constant juice the clock speed. So perhaps
E5 2620 v2 2.6 GHz 6 cores
However, given the reports of them pushing to add a 12 core to the 2600 line up I suspect they are still going to push/chase "core count war" with the 2600 offerings. ( AMD server offerings have already been on that focus. If Intel can largely match core count with better cores they will continue to dominate AMD. ) For workload consolidation (whether cluster collapse or multiple OS instances ) that makes sense. The 1600's are for the blocked by single threaded apps workload.
Now if Mac Pro goes the Xeon E3 route then it is different. Those are already out
The E3 v3 line up.
http://ark.intel.com/products/series/75143
Probably xxx5 variants since they have a iGPU and make rolling out Thunderbolt easier.
I'd guess
E3 1245 v3 3.4 GHz 4 cores
E3 1275 v3 3.5 GHz 4 core
E3 1285 v3 3.6 GHz 4 cores
Starts where iMac tops out on BTO and goes up from there a bit.