

#2010 MAC PRO MEMORY INSTALL#
For best performance, you should install memory in sets of three matching modules, as the CPU can access up to 3 channels of memory at once.

There are two base 2010 models, a single-CPU Mac Pro that ships with 3 GB of RAM and supports up to 48 GB, and a dual-CPU Mac Pro that ships with 6 GB of RAM and supports up to 128 GB. These CPUs support HyperThreading, which means a quad-core CPU can work like an 8-core CPU, and Turbo Boost technology allows CPUs to dynamically overclock themselves when called on – so long as they don’t overheat.Īll that power doesn’t come cheap, and the least expensive Mac Pro configuration sells for $2,499.

The Mid 2012 Mac Pro is the same basic hardware but built around newer CPUs, including Bloomfield. Each core has its own 256 KB Level 2 (L2) cache, each quad-core CPU has an 8 GB 元 cache, and the 6-core CPUs have 12 MB 元 caches.

Once we receive our custom order 2013 Mac Pro 8-core with D700s, we can better determine the 'sweetest spot' in the 2013 Mac Pro multi model lineup for such apps as FCPX, Motion, DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop, Lightroom, Aperture, etc.It’s been over 15 months since Apple rolled out the 2009 Mac Pro, and the 2010 Mac Pro is yet another big step forward: every configuration uses quad-core Intel Xeon Nehalem or quad-core and even hex-core Westmere CPUs for even more power. In our tests with the 2013 Mac Pro 6-core with D700s, it actually completed the FCPX and Motion tests faster than the 2013 Mac Pro 12-core with D700s. Many of you have asked whether your mix of pro apps require a 12-core Mac Pro or if a 6-core or 8-core will do the job just as well. Notice how the pair of each of those extremes were helped by the new optimizations. Of course, a single Radeon 5770, 5870, and 7950 are more typical of what most of you have in the 20 Mac Pro towers.īoth Final Cut Pro Xđ0.1 and Motionĕ.1 are "optimized playback and rendering using dual GPUs in the new Mac Pro." For the Mac Pro tower, we included every AMD GPU from the basic factory Radeon HD 5770 to the flashed Radeon HD 7970. Surprisingly, the dual Radeon HD 7970s were able to generate more samples per second than the dual FirePro D700s. We featured LuxMark is an OpenCL benchmark since it not only renders the scenes with mutliple GPUs, but can render with ONLY GPUs. When it comes to CPU crunching, the 'late 2013' Mac Pro 12-core is faster than the 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 12-core in both single and multi-core tests. Motion 5.1 - We rendered the RAM Preview of Atmospheric - Open sample project.
#2010 MAC PRO MEMORY 1080P#
Next we applied the Water Pane effect to our 1080p two minute sample video. (LARGER number means FASTER in Thousands of Samples per Second.)įinal Cut Pro X 10.1 features "optimized playback and rendering using dual GPUs in the new Mac Pro." We applied the Gaussian Blur effect to our 1080p two minute sample video. For this round we used the default Sala scene (488K Triangles) and rendered using all available GPUs, but GPUs only. LuxMark 2.1 is an OpenCL benchmark that renders scenes of various complexity. Single 5770 = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-core with single Radeon HD 5770 GPU Single 5870 = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-core with single Radeon HD 5870 GPUĭual 5770s = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-core with dual Radeon HD 5770 GPUs Single 7950 = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-core with single Radeon HD 7950 GPU Single 7970 = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-core with single Radeon HD 7970 GPU However, since we were not able to test the Radeon HD 7970 in a 12-core Mac Pro, we used a 6-core Mac Pro instead to host it and the other Mac Pro tower GPUs featured in this section.ĭual D700s = 'late 2013' Mac Pro 12-core with dual FirePro D700 GPUsĭual R7970s = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-Core with dual Radeon HD 7970 GPUs The Radeon HD 7970 is as close as you can get to the FirePro D700.
