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Apple Unveils Redesigned Mac Pro Desktop and Pro Display XDR at WWDC

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@jaymonkey
This has nothing to do with performance, maybe used as an excuse - the higher/more exotic/more proprietary/more difficult to find/more overpriced the hardware, the better the margin for profit. Apple has been using Xeons for other products too (where it shouldn't), it's not the first time. If it was the sheer performance that Apple was after or/and the best benefit for their customers we would have had Power9, EPYC, SMP Xeons etc (or even just a Threadripper).

Regarding the PCI-e lanes, 16x might not be that dramatically better than 8x for rendering or deep learning (not that Apple cares about researchers or scientists) and ECC RAM is mostly used as locking weapon in the Intel ecosystem. If it is about NVME I/O throughput, what will happen when other companies start offering PCIe 4.0 (or is it 5.0?) solutions by the time Apple's new Mac Pro comes out ?

@scottkendall
I have never bought Celeron CPUs, they are inferior CPUs for many tasks. I said that I am not making the same comments typical PC users do when they are just bashing Apple instead of Intel too (yet, yes Apple can be blamed indirectly for choosing/locking users to Intel/Xeon).

Yes, Apple should have waited until PCI-e 7.0 is available to release the Mac Pro so you can be future proof.
 
@scottkendall
I have never bought Celeron CPUs, they are inferior CPUs for many tasks. I said that I am not making the same comments typical PC users do when they are just bashing Apple instead of Intel too (yet, yes Apple can be blamed indirectly for choosing/locking users to Intel/Xeon).


I am not here bashing anyone and I do not really think anyone in this post is really bashing anyone apple or intel. Other then over the $1000 monitor stand, but your not talking about the stand. Also it is nothing new for Apple to run on a limited set of hardware from limited manufactures, if apple is nothing they are consistent with their relationships. Their software is built around running on this said limited set of hardware. If you do not like being locked in then don't use their $20/Free OS. Over the course of the life of most Mac Hardware they give you free OS upgrades, said upgrades could cost between $400-1000 on a windows PC.

@jaymonkey

Regarding the PCI-e lanes, 16x might not be that dramatically better than 8x for rendering or deep learning (not that Apple cares about researchers or scientists) and ECC RAM is mostly used as locking weapon in the Intel ecosystem. If it is about NVME I/O throughput, what will happen when other companies start offering PCIe 4.0 (or is it 5.0?) solutions by the time Apple's new Mac Pro comes out ?

I call 5 mins faster on a 2 min track fairly dramatic.
 
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Yes, Apple should have waited until PCI-e 7.0 is available to release the Mac Pro so you can be future proof.
PCI-e 7.0 might come in 6 years or more. PCI-e 4.0 is already here.
 
Which application/hardware ? (we are talking PCI-e lanes, typically for GPUs)

Everything uses PCI lanes if you GPU takes all your lanes then your Hard drives do not have the lanes. Pretty sure devices on TB bus use the PCI lanes thus if your 16 is eaten up by two video cards running 8x each your TB is forced off the PCI x16 lanes and routed threw the PCH as Jaymonkey noted. When rendering audio and video this slows down your system.

It would be ignorant to think that a freeway with 16 lanes would move at the same speed as a freeway 32 lanes. Why would it be any different in your computer?
 
PCI-e 7.0 might come in 6 years or more. PCI-e 4.0 is already here.

Not on any Intel based motherboard.

And if Apple had been using AMD CPUs since 2005, you would have been complaining about them choosing AMD.

People like you just look for stuff to complain about.
 
Everything uses PCI lanes if you GPU takes all your lanes then your Hard drives do not have the lanes. Pretty sure devices on TB bus use the PCI lanes thus if your 16 is eaten up by two video cards running 8x each your TB is forced off the PCI x16 lanes and routed threw the PCH as Jaymonkey noted. When rendering audio and video this slows down your system.

It would be ignorant to think that a freeway with 16 lanes would move at the same speed as a freeway 32 lanes. Why would it be any different in your computer?
Ordinary X299 chipset motherboards have 44 lanes on non-Xeon CPUs. NVME needs 4x anyway.
 
Not on any Intel based motherboard.
The new Mac Pro is not competing against just machines with Intel motherboards.


And if Apple had been using AMD CPUs since 2005, you would have been complaining about them choosing AMD.

People like you just look for stuff to complain about.
I guess you have not been complaining about the lack of Nvidia support since Mojave either.

People like you just accept anything offered without complain.
 
@gorg,

Your forgetting that all desktop CPU's (i3,i5,i7 & i9 series) only have 16 PCI lanes .... so once you put a PCIe GPU in the system everything else either has to go through the PCH or through PCI bridges/switches which vastly cripples the expansion I/O.

Xeon Workstation/Server class CPU's have many more PCI lanes and thus do not suffer this limitation, that is the primary reason Apple use Xeon CPU's in the Pro products in addition to the high core counts and the ability to use ECC memory.

Cheers
Jay
sorry to interrupt but not all CPU are 16 lanes only, i have a i9 and is 44 lanes through the CPU, the chipset has some lanes but they are useless, i have 2 highpoint SSD7102 with 4 samsung 970 pro in each card for a total of 8 m.2 drives, the speed is insane, constant reading and writing without dropping or slowing down, yes AMD has 64 lanes but i don’t like AMD even if it offers more lanes than intel, also for hackintosh intel is better, i do run my video card at 8x for a total of 40 lanes off the CPU, i benchmark my card at 16x vs 8x and there is almost no difference in frame rate, just a single frame difference, the video card doesn’t saturate the pci-e port or bus but the 16x m.2 card losses half of their speed if you change from 16x to 8x that’s why i run my video card at 8x because i technically don’t loose anything, the 16x m.2 card goes up to almost 12,000 at 16x and at 6,000 at 8x so i have to run the video card at 8x so i don’t loose the speed on the m.2 drives by running one of the cards at 8x, the point is that my i9 cpu has 44 lanes not just 16x
 
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The new Mac Pro is not competing against just machines with Intel motherboards.



I guess you have not been complaining about the lack of Nvidia support since Mojave either.

People like you just accept anything offered without complain.

I saw the writing on the wall when Nvidia couldn't fix their buggy drivers back in High Sierra and made the switch before they screwed all their users by not releasing Mojave drivers.

There are no PCI-e 4.0 motherboards on sale yet. Neither Intel nor AMD based. But you complain about it not being in the Mac Pro. Why stop at PCI-e 4.0? Why not complain that Thunderbolt 4, DDR5, and USB 4 are not included either?

Instead of appreciating something for what it is, you complain about crap that isn't available yet. What a miserable way to live.
 
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