Thread: The New Mac Pro
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Robo
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2019-08-06, 15:33

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Originally Posted by chucker View Post
I doubt Apple is particularly happy that Skylake-W is a fair bit slower than Coffee Lake-S (or that Cascade Lake-W has a TDP so much higher it probably won't fit in the iMac Pro).

It's arguably a fool me twice, shame on me situation, though. How many times can Apple repeat this mistake of believing that Intel will keep iterating on a particular TDP?
Part of me is a little surprised Apple didn't go with AMD for the new Mac Pro. The second-generation Threadripper goes up to 32 cores/64 threads. The new third-generation Threadripper that's supposed to come out this fall is expected to go up to 64 cores/128 threads, without a huge increase in TDP due to moving to 7nm. And all of those processors support 64 PCIe lanes and ECC memory.

And don't act like Phil Schiller wouldn't absolutely love to get to call the processors "Threadripper" on stage.

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