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#Mac pro 5.1 2010 upgrades pro
Many of you have asked whether your mix of pro apps require a 12-core Mac Pro or if a 6-core or 8-core will do the job just as well. Notice how the pair of each of those extremes were helped by the new optimizations. Of course, a single Radeon 5770, 5870, and 7950 are more typical of what most of you have in the 20 Mac Pro towers.īoth Final Cut Pro Xđ0.1 and Motionĕ.1 are "optimized playback and rendering using dual GPUs in the new Mac Pro." For the Mac Pro tower, we included every AMD GPU from the basic factory Radeon HD 5770 to the flashed Radeon HD 7970. Surprisingly, the dual Radeon HD 7970s were able to generate more samples per second than the dual FirePro D700s. We featured LuxMark is an OpenCL benchmark since it not only renders the scenes with mutliple GPUs, but can render with ONLY GPUs. When it comes to CPU crunching, the 'late 2013' Mac Pro 12-core is faster than the 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 12-core in both single and multi-core tests. Motion 5.1 - We rendered the RAM Preview of Atmospheric - Open sample project.
#Mac pro 5.1 2010 upgrades 1080p
Next we applied the Water Pane effect to our 1080p two minute sample video. (LARGER number means FASTER in Thousands of Samples per Second.)įinal Cut Pro X 10.1 features "optimized playback and rendering using dual GPUs in the new Mac Pro." We applied the Gaussian Blur effect to our 1080p two minute sample video. For this round we used the default Sala scene (488K Triangles) and rendered using all available GPUs, but GPUs only. LuxMark 2.1 is an OpenCL benchmark that renders scenes of various complexity. Single 5770 = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-core with single Radeon HD 5770 GPU Single 5870 = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-core with single Radeon HD 5870 GPUĭual 5770s = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-core with dual Radeon HD 5770 GPUs Single 7950 = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-core with single Radeon HD 7950 GPU Single 7970 = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-core with single Radeon HD 7970 GPU However, since we were not able to test the Radeon HD 7970 in a 12-core Mac Pro, we used a 6-core Mac Pro instead to host it and the other Mac Pro tower GPUs featured in this section.ĭual D700s = 'late 2013' Mac Pro 12-core with dual FirePro D700 GPUsĭual R7970s = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 6-Core with dual Radeon HD 7970 GPUs For single-CPU upgrades, its a friendlier price situation, such as going from 2.66Ghz to 3.33Ghz.The Radeon HD 7970 is as close as you can get to the FirePro D700.
#Mac pro 5.1 2010 upgrades upgrade
In terms of value, it makes sense to upgrade to the 3.33Ghz 12-core only if you must have the last drop of performance. The 3.33Ghz CPU itself is a very expensive part, and so the great bulk of the upgrade cost is the dual CPUs themselves.
#Mac pro 5.1 2010 upgrades full
If you’re buying a fast system to run 24X7 at max CPU load with maxed-out heat-belching 15K rpm drives and the PCIe slots full of power hungry cards-who knows. I’m completely comfortable in my usage of this upgraded system, and I beat on it harder than most users. The Mac Pro fan system can easily deal with this even under full load I found that the fan noise increased only a little. The single-CPU 2010 Mac Pros all use 130 watt parts, so there is no real difference with a dual CPU system other than total power draw each CPU has its own heat sink on the dual core systems, each generating the same heat as the single-CPU systems. So under max load, the faster CPUs will draw 2X35 = 70 watts more power. The 3.33GHz W5680 is a 130 watt CPU, whereas Apple’s 2.93GHz 12-core uses 95 watts. Fromīetter to upgrade the 2.8GHz model for lower cost Not all possibilities shown, see the OWC CPU upgrade page. 2010/2012 upgradesĪvailability for fastest speeds as of mid February, 2011. The best 2010 Mac Pro system to upgrade is the 2.4GHz 8-core system, because it’s the least expensive. You won’t believe how slick this upgrade is- send OWC your existing CPU tray, wait a few days for the upgraded tray, then pop it in and boot up! I’m now happily running my 8-core 2.4GHz Mac Pro with a brain transplant: the 12-core 3.33Ghz model-see my review. With OWC’s CPU upgrade program, an upgrade to a faster CPU or more CPU cores is made easy.Īs of late 2014, OWC can upgrade the CPU in the 2009 or 2010 or 2012 Mac Pro models, and can also upgrade the CPU in a 2013 Mac Pro.Īpple won’t sell you a 3.33Ghz 12-core Mac Pro, but you can still have one! Or 3.46 GHz.