FACTS & FIGURES

It’s the most powerful, most expandable Mac ever – the numbers prove it...

The lowdown on the new Mac Pro

28 cores

> The base model Mac Pro has an 8-core 3.5GHz Intel Xeon W processor, with the option of up to a 28-core chip – the most ever in a Mac. (The previous best was 12 cores.) This means it can do even more, all at once.

56 teraflops

> The graphics performance of the top configuration with four Radeon Pro Vega II GPUs. That’s 56 trillion floating point operations per second. If you performed one million per second, 56 trillion would take 1.78 years. The previous Mac Pro topped out at 3.5 teraflops.

½ Price

> The new Mac Pro starts at $5,999 (about £4,700). Costly? It’s half the price of the first modular Mac, the Macintosh II, which cost $5,500 in 1987. That’s $12,500 (£9,900) in today’s money.

1,500GB

> With 12 memory slots, the new Mac Pro can fit up to 1.5TB of RAM. That’s 24 times the 64GB maximum in the previous Mac Pro (and six times the iMac Pro’s 256GB max, the previous record).

4Kx12

> Want to edit 4K video? If you fit four GPUs and Apple’s Afterburner accelerator card, the Mac Pro can play back 12 streams at 4K resolution simultaneously, driving 6.3 billion pixels per second, and on up to six of Apple’s super-HD 32-inch Pro Display XDRs, if you like.

First Mac on wheels

> Many Mac models have had carry handles, from the first-ever Mac to the original iMac and the PowerMac G3. But the new Mac Pro is the very first Mac with wheels – optional hubless stainless steel wheels (price TBC).