there's mixed feelings about them on the forms but most people are not on the forums and just hit them on google
so id gess most people who use them wont care/know and just buy things.
most people just want it to work and be easy thats it.
1 may be a hackintosh version of osx installed on a real mac pro
2 part of the RTX line is bringing high end features from quadro to consumers so maybe the vodo is in that (as thats all Linux boxes in racks)
3
@landek if like me you just have SSD's shoved in and using the connector as the only support that macpro may have lots of drives + cant see whats in the DVD bay
4 may be a prank, will they relay have a mouse mat on display like that?
lame prank tho as it affects so few people.
if it's a real video to sell units id see them doing a real video "hi we are create pro and are excited to bring you the cutting edge of macpro upgrades, with are skilled team of technicians we have manged to bring you the "mac" RTX upgrade line" and so on
& cant see them beating mac video cards to market (with there history lol)
as we are making guesses
5 may be apple is mad at AMD for what happened with vaga and lack of good mobile options, i did a post before about how AMD pushed all there resources in to navi and left vaga under staffed and developed
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasone...nys-playstation-5-vega-suffered/#2435ab8d24fd
there was talk that Raja left partly due to being annoyed with how it was manged.
and as a longer stretch and my hope.
i did see speculation that the macbooks where deigned with Intel's road map ie apple designed there thermal envelope over the idea that intel was going to be able to pull of there die shrink, with Intel falling to pull it off was partly to blame for the laptop overheating thing.
so if AMD pulls of 7nm i can hope apple may take a look there way. only big problem i see is apple is so dependent on the igpu in Intel chips and im not shore if AMD can give apple that with out lots of work coding on apple's side.
relay i just want to see apple look at threadriper mac pro's as it will be funny if they swap from AMD to NVIDA for GPU and from Intel to AMD for CPU
ps
@WAM2 ray tracing is not a new thing, it's not that metal can do it it's more if metal/osx can actually use the dedicated parts in the gpu to do it.
an example, hardware decoding on gpu
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mp4-1-5-1-rx580-fcpx10-4-3-hevc-crash.2145286/
the RX 580 can do it, works in windows but as you see in the topics about it osx cant use the parts in the gpu to actually do it.
my gess is if apple is going to use RTX cards they will wait for the die shrink version coming next gen, let the bugs get worked out and the ecosystem of applications to expand before taking a jump.
plus there are no laptop versions of RTX cards in sight and power use has gone up!
all tests i have seen so far show the RTX cards using more power, with only conventional graphics used & hitting power limits and that's with parts of the gpu siting idle (RTX & DLSR cores etc)
so what happens once there activated will power use go up or will the conventional parts of the gpu slow down to give power to the new parts?
edit
the real problem i see with apple jumping from AMD to NVIDIA or Intel to AMD is i cant see them spending the money to re do so much code in osx, the last few years they have just been spending most there dev time on iphones from what i can see.
they relay have optimized relay well for the hardware and all that work will be lost with a switch.
