What to expect from the new Mac Pro? A rather sensational performance gain, tells us a journalist who has often been right in the matter.
At least twice the power for the new Mac Pro. In any case, this is what promises Mark Gurman, journalist for Bloomberg usually well informed. According to him, and depending on the options chosen, the next version of the machine would be able to develop two to four times more performance than the current model. An estimate that does not seem so far-fetched, since the latter remains confined to old (x86) Intel Xeon processors, ranging from 8 to 28 cores.
Apple M2 Ultra and Extreme chips to change everything?
In his newsletter PowerOn, Mark Gurman thus predicts the arrival on the Mac Pro of two new chips: the M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme. The first would be equipped with 24 CPU cores and 76 GPU cores, against 48 CPU cores and 152 GPU cores for the second. The unified memory capacity could go up to 256 GB on the next Mac Pro, reports also The Verge.
As a reminder, the “classic” M2 chip, installed in particular on the MacBook Air 2022, is limited to 8 CPU cores and a maximum of 10 GPU cores; while the future M2 Pro chip would be equipped with 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores.
Also according to Gurman, Apple is currently conducting tests on a Mac Pro configuration comprising 24 CPU cores, 76 GPU cores and 192 GB of RAM. This “basic” configuration would currently run macOS Ventura 13.3, the deployment of which should materialize in France in the coming hours.
Expected launch in 2023
According to the journalist of Bloomberg, this new Mac Pro should arrive on the market in 2023, without further details at this stage. Before it, Apple is to launch new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips. A new Mac mini with a “single” M2 chip is also planned for early next year.
In the meantime, Apple is still marketing its original Mac Pro. Launched in 2019, the current model is trading from 6,499 euros. It remains to be seen what the price of the M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme models will be, as Apple has been tending for a few weeks to revise the pricing of many devices upwards.
Source : The Verge
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