Naturally, this means it runs very quietly. It draws air through the base and out through the top of the casing, over the heat sink that stretches from the top of the Mac Pro to the bottom. Where the previous Mac Pro had eight separate fans, the most recent Mac Pro only has one. SpecificationĪt the heart of the new Mac Pro is the thermal core, a unified heat sink around which the processor board and two graphics processor boards are attached. If you still use CDs and DVDs, you'll have to invest in a USB SuperDrive or similar external disc drive.

Equally unsurprisingly, there's no optical drive. Unsurprisingly given its compact size and the way Macs have developed over the last few years, storage is solid state. At the same time, its two AMD FirePro GPUs deliver up to eight times the graphical performance of the previous-generation Mac Pros, though to be fair, when the 2012 Mac Pro went off sale in 2013 due to an amended EU safety regulation, the graphics card it offered was already well out of date.

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