Ny MacPro - 8 kjerners kraftpakke
Apple har designet den hurtigste Mac Pro noen sinne med Intels nye 45 nanometer prosessorer. Den nye Mac Pro er opp til 2x raskere enn den tidligere modellen. Man skulle ikke tro det var mulig men du kan nå jobbe enda raskere. Den nye Mac Pro kommer med opp til 2 Quad-Core Xeon 5400 processorer med den nye 45 nanometer teknologien på 3,2 GHz. Den kan også fås med 2x Quad-Core Xeon på 2,8 og 3,0 Ghz eller med en enkelt Quad-Core Xeon med 2,8 GHz.
Den raskeste Macintosh-maskinen noen gang.
Helt siden Apple annonserte overgangen til Intel-prosessorer har vi ventet på en stasjonær maskinen med ytelse i verdensklasse for profesjonelle brukere. Nå er den her. En maskin med enormt mye kraft og mange utvidelsesmuligheter. Den er alt du har drømt om, og mer til. Her er nye Mac Pro.
8-kjerners prosessorkraft
Eight-core processing power was once only top-of-the-line. Now it comes standard. This time around, performance is more phenomenal than ever — up to two times faster than the previous standard-configuration Mac Pro. And with the multi-core technology enhancements of Mac OS X Leopard, the new Mac Pro is a force to be reckoned with.
More power with less power
Inside the new Mac Pro is the latest technology from Intel: Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors. These processors run at blazingly fast speeds up to 3.2GHz. Based on the new 45-nanometre Intel Core microarchitecture, these processors deliver amazing performance but still maintain outstanding energy efficiency.
Cache count
A huge amount of L2 cache — 12MB per processor — keeps frequently used data and instructions close to the processor cores and improves overall performance. 6MB of cache is shared between pairs of processor cores, allowing an individual core to use all the available shared cache at any one time.
Built at full tilt
With the fastest Xeon architecture available, the new Mac Pro features 1600MHz dual independent frontside buses. These 64-bit buses give each processor a direct connection to the system controller and deliver improved processor bandwidth of up to 25.6GB per second — 20 percent greater than the previous Mac Pro. With a new system architecture, speedier system buses and fast 800MHz DDR2 fully buffered DIMM memory, Mac Pro memory throughput is up to 1.6 times faster than before.
Every Intel Xeon processor features an enhanced SSE4 SIMD engine. Capable of completing 128-bit vector computations in a single cycle, SSE4 is ideal for transforming large sets of data, such as applying a filter to an image or rendering a video effect.
Feast your eyes.
All-new high-performance graphics cards from ATI and NVIDIA make Mac Pro graphics technology even more cutting edge. The standard graphics card — an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory, PCI Express 2.0 and two dual-link DVI ports — provides great performance for typical creative applications. And you get dual 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display support out of the box.
For motion graphics, 3D modelling, rendering or animation, you’ll need the greater graphics horsepower offered by the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT with 512MB of GDDR3 memory and latest-generation NVIDIA GPU technology.
The optional NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 graphics card is the ultimate workstation-class graphics card available, with a massive 1.5GB of GDDR3 memory and a 3D stereo port for stereo-in-a-window applications.
All of these cards feature the latest-generation unified shader model support. Compared to dedicated pixel and vertex shaders, shaders are no longer special-purpose and can now be utilised based on the needs of the graphics application.
Massive storage
The Mac Pro comes with four 3.5-inch internal hard drive bays for an enormous amount of internal storage — up to 4TB when you install four 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives. Each bay provides its own independent 3Gb/s channel for fast access to data. And thanks to the cable-free, direct-attach installation system, adding (or replacing) hard drives is a surprisingly simple process.
Ultimate SASYou can also choose ultrafast 15,000-rpm Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 3Gb/s drives with 300GB of capacity for the highest in disk I/O performance. Together with the Mac Pro RAID Card, these drives provide 250MB/s of RAID 5 disk I/O performance. That’s enough data to play back one stream of 10-bit uncompressed HD content. It’s the ultimate storage solution for highly demanding data transfer situations like editing uncompressed HD video content.
Ready to RAID
Using Mac OS X, you can stripe two, three or all four hard drives in a RAID 0 array to increase performance and create a massive volume for video editing; or create a RAID 1 mirror for protecting your critical digital media assets against a drive failure. For the ultimate in data protection and enhanced performance, add the optional Mac Pro RAID Card with 256MB of RAID cache, a 72-hour cache-protecting battery and hardware RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 0+1. Apple’s RAID Utility software makes setting up and managing the RAID card easy.
