I just spotted this on the Mac Pro
tech specs page:
That sounds like maybe a 4 bay internal RAID unit that can be used in one of the two MPX "graphics" slots. Thoughts?
you are probably looking at a MPX module buit by sonnet that will have a raid card and either u2 slot or m2 slots.
internal hardware raid is a must have on a workstation with 10 gbe there are going to be a lot of those fited with very
low end graphics and massive nvme array ....
I would be surprised if they bring the xserve back from the grave to complement this.
the absolutely fantastic news is that the system is going to support at least 4 gpu and probably even more.
now not rain on anybody’s parade, the inclusion of the T2 chip could indeed limit what can be plugged on those « standard mpx pcie slot »
soud to me that each mpx x slot have a kind of standard pcie slot but with a special apple twist that could be a plx switch on each slot because all slot on the board ads up way above the processor 40 or 64 lane.
and any how we are splitting hair here :
there are at least 3 x16 standard pcie slot witch mean we are looking at a base machine that can have 8 tb of nvme at 12gb/s on a highpoint ssd 7103 or anfeltec for a little less than 2500€.
if you think about it we will be able to buy one of those in the close to bare configuration (8 core, 512, rx580, 32gb) for around 6k€, slap all we already have on our cMP2009 inside and still get the same performance as a maxed out cMP 12 core 3,46.
in 2/3 years people will start upgrading processor and you will find 12/16 cores for 600/1000€....
there will be two kind of customer for that machine like there was back ine the day of cMP:
the freelancer that will struggle to buy a base model and will upgrade it along the way, and the big company that will probably buy mid to very hig configurations straight from apple.
but if you look on the price of the components a vega vII is around 700€
so dual vega mpx modules will be at least 2000€....
now if you look at the ram going to 1,5tb even on newegg put you in the 6 k mark.
maxed out 28 cores with two dual vega and ram you are looking in the 40k territory for a machine.
the only thing that I am almost 99% sure is that machine is custom taylored for motion picture industry.
davinci is going to fly on this...
