Apple has finally released the long-rumoured 8-Core Mac Pro.
Apple describes the machine as;
Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world’s first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised.
The officially specification on the new systems are:
- Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 series “Clovertown” processors
- Intel Core microarchitecture
- 8MB of L2 cache per processor (16MB total; each pair of cores shares 4MB)
- 128-bit SSE3 vector engine
- 64-bit data paths and registers
- Energy efficiency optimization
- 1.33GHz, 64-bit dual independent frontside buses