#3.46 6 core mac pro cpu full version#
#3.46 6 core mac pro cpu upgrade#

According to a review by Anandtech, it rivals the speed of the NVIDIA GTX TITAN at a fraction of the price. If that does NOT happen, you can always go with dual NVIDIA GPUs that are both OpenGL and OpenCL capable - an option, BTW, only available with a 'traditional' Mac Pro tower.įLASH: An even faster AMD GPU is coming, the R9 290X.

Hopefully pro apps that accelerate only with CUDA capable GPUs (NVIDIA) will be modified to support OpenCL capable AMD GPUs like the FirePro and Radeon HD 7970. The point of the dual 7970s is to show another way to extend the life of the Mac Pro tower. (Both OceanWave and OpenGL Extensions Viewer 'think' the 7970 is a FirePro D700.) HIGHER number equals FASTER. In this test session, knowing that the new Mac Pro will sport dual AMD FirePros, we equipped our test unit with dual Radeon HD 7970s - because, other than total VRAM, the performance specs match the FirePro D700 exactly. We've demonstrated that in previous articles using OctaneRender, DaVinci Resolve, and After Effects (Ray-traced 3D). The new trend of sharing render duties with the GPU will continue to grow. And based on Geekbench results which 'escaped' for the new Mac Pro, a pumped up 12-core Mac Pro tower should easily beat the top 2013 12-core Mac Pro 'un-tower' when running CPU intensive pro apps. In other words, the cost of switching can be much more than the cost of the new Mac Pro itself.Īs you can see from the results, the current architecture, though bus speed limited, is still capable of being pushed to go faster. Why go through this exercise when a new Mac Pro is imminent? Because many professionals are trying to decide whether to stick with their existing Mac Pro tower or replace it with the soon-to-be-released Mac Pro 'un-tower.' If you have a significant investment in internal and external addons that are not compatible with the new Mac Pro, you may hesitate to make the leap to the new form factor. We specified all available cores and 2G of memory per core. You can choose the multiprocessing option in Preferences > Performance to define how many cores to use in rendering and how much memory to dedicate to each core. (HIGHER rating is FASTER.)Īfter Effects CC relies heavily on the CPU for rendering certain projects. We focused on the 64-bit test set posting the Integer and Floating Point rating here.

Geekbench 3 includes integer, floating point, and memory performance tests. Cinebench uses all available CPU cores, real and virtual (Hyperthreading), when rendering its 3D model. Though there is a newer R15 version, but we used the 11.5 version.

#3.46 6 core mac pro cpu full version#

Mavericks 10.9 wasn't final during our testing.)Ĭinebench is the 'almost real world' test that uses code from the full version of Cinema 4D. (More on why later.) So how does this 'beast' stack up against factory Mac Pro towers when running CPU intensive benchmarks? MacVidCards added to the fun by loaning us dual Radeon HD 7970s. This is especially timely with the imminent release of the Mac Pro 'un-tower.'Į loaned us a 'fire breathing' Mac Pro tower with a 3.46GHz 12-core CPU and 96GB of DDR3 memory.

#3.46 6 core mac pro cpu upgrade#

It is time to take a look at ways to upgrade the main CPU of your Mac Pro tower. In previous articles, we've featured upgrades to the Mac Pro tower's GPUs and storage. Posted Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist