Buying a new Mac Pro for gaming is beyond idiotic. The GPUs found in the Mac Pro aren't focused or even oriented for gaming. They are for heavy number crunching and other sort of animation.
Besides, like many have said, you can buy/build a even better Gaming computer by using simple consumer oriented parts found in regular PCs.
You have no idea what you're talking about at all. The Mac Pro's professional orientation has almost no effect on it's gaming performance. We're talking about a computer which in D700 configuration is noticeably faster than a Geforce Titan. Just because the Mac Pro wasn't built for gaming doesn't mean it's not the best mass produced gaming computer on the face of the planet.
Just like Apollo 10 was the fastest vehicle in human history, yet it wasn't built for speed. They could have gone much faster if they ditched the lander and all the scientific equipment for more fuel.
The highest performance things on the planet are often not optimized for what they happen to excel at.
The new Mac Pro is the most cost effective, high end gaming rig on the planet, and has insane performance.
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i cant find any information how the entry mac pro performs on gameing or what benefit the gfx-card upgrade brings?!
i know... Buying a Gaming-Mac for more than 3000 bugs is insane compared to the priceing of an gaming-PC buy anyway... im just interested how the mac pro 2013 performs and what boost we can expect from an gfx upgrade (D500, D700).
i know... today just a few applications take advantage of the dual fire pro gfx cards.
Im looking forward to your estimates...
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The D700 setup faster than any single card solution available on the planet. Meaning it's faster than a Geforce Titan. It can play any game at any resolution on any settings in windows bootcamp, but there are some driver issues with games from smaller studios like with Metro Last Light that will need to be patched, but with Battlefield 4 and Bioshock it's amazing.
The Mac Pro is also incredibly cheap, it costs nearly the same as building a DIY PC, and the resale value will be much better in the long run.
So if you bought Dell Area x51 for example with the 760 TI, 256GB SSD and 16GB of memory, you'd pay $2000. You'd be able to sell it for $800 1.5 years later. For a loss of $1200. You'd be looking at the same loss with a DIY PC.
On the other hand if you bought a Mac Pro with the D700 GPU for $4,000, you'd be able to sell it for $2800 in 1.5 years, but you'd have
TWICE the performance for the same price.
The Mac Pro is basically the best and least expensive to own high end gaming PC available.
