Power users with money to spend will have a present to buy for themselves in December : That ’s when Apple ’s newMac Pro , which the company previewed back inJune , will finally be available for leverage . The caller harbinger the Mac Pro shipping time soma during aneventin San Francisco on Tuesday .
The $ 2999 shape let in an Intel 3.7GHzXeon E5processor with 10 Mbit of L3 cache and Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz , 12 GB of 1866MHz ECC DDR3 RAM ( installed as three 4 GB modules , leaving one RAM one-armed bandit undecided ) , 256 GB of PCIe - based flash computer memory , and two AMD FirePro D300 GPUs ( 2 GB of VRAM each ) .
Apple also offers a $ 3999 model , which has a six - core 3.5GHz Xeon E5 CPU with 12 megabit of L3 memory cache and Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz , 16 GB of 1866MHz ECC DDR3 RAM ( instal as four 4 GB modules , make full all of the Mac Pro ’s RAM slots ) , 256 GB of PCIe - based newsflash memory , and two AMD FirePro D500 GPUs ( 3 GB of VRAM each ) .
Apple proffer a telephone number of customization options , but as of this writing , Apple has not made useable its online configurator listing the prices for the upgrades . According to the technical specification , CPU upgrades include an eight - core 3GHz Xeon E5 with 25 MB of L3 cache , and a 12 - core 2.7GHz Xeon E5 with 30 MB of L3 stash . The RAM is upgradable to 64 GB , and extra flash storage is available at 512 gigabyte or 1 TB . The graphics can be raise to dual AMD FirePro D700 card , each with 6 GB of GDDR5 VRAM .
With a height of 9.9 inches and a diam of 6.6 inches , the 2013 Mac Pro has no room for expansion via PCI card or inner storage devices . Mac Pro users must swear on the machine ’s six Thunderbolt 2 ports and four USB 3.0 ports to tie in such devices . exploiter of the previous Mac Pro tower who have expansion cards or intragroup storage that they still require to use will have to buy external boxes to put up those devices — a spare cost to factor in when purchase one of the new Pros . Each Thunderbolt 2 embrasure substantiate up to six daisy - chain twist , so the Mac Pro can stick out up to 36 Thunderbolt peripherals .
Once you murder the machine ’s metal sleeve , you could get to the Mac Pro ’s four retentivity slots , so you could kick upstairs the tup after purchase the computer . The flash - storage card connects to a socket in the Mac Pro , so theoretically you could replace it if aftermarket split second - storage upgrade become uncommitted .
Mac Pro Quad-Core/3.7GHz (Late 2013)
Mac Pro 6-Core/3.5GHz (Late 2013)
