I’m just praying there is some magical way to add some of the apple silicon magic to existing Mac Pro. Probably not possible but M1 has spoiled me on my MacBook Pro. I just want a Mac Pro that’s has a decent upgrade life span. The current sockets are already outdated which sucks.
ah ah ho ho, keep praying into the depths of empty space bruv, nothing out there will hear your voice.
Some news has been suggesting Apple considering upgrading the existing Intel Mac Pro but also introducing a new Apple Silicon based Mac Pro about half the size of the Intel machine. Talk is they hoped to ship one with 32 Cores (28+4) with between 32-128 GPU cores but they said it depends on several factors.
This article has details of the new Mac's:
Company is also working on two new Mac Pro high-end desktops and a cheaper external monitor.
www.bloomberg.com
and this one talks about the Apple Silicon Chips they are working on and planning to use in the new designs:
Apple Inc. is planning a series of new Mac processors for introduction as early as 2021 that are aimed at outperforming Intel Corp.’s fastest.
www.bloomberg.com
As a guess, soon the
Low end MBP and low end iMac will ship with a 12 core (8+4),
High end MBP/iMac Pro 20 core (16+4),
Mac Pro Apple Silicon up to 32 core (28+4)/32-128 GPU.
With this many CPU cores and GPU cores the new Mac Pro should easily smash the existing Intel Mac Pro to smithereens even if the Intel Mac Pro had the highest end 3rd party GPU that isn't yet available.
Although, theoretically, close to the 64 core Threadripper Pro mmm
The price should be significantly cheaper too.