Here’s a review of
http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/23/apple-mac-pro-review-2013/. It’s as quiet as advertised but runs warm. I suspect if really pushed (render farm) Apple may have to boost fan speeds a tad.
Benchmarks and testing are fairly thin – of note is they apparently got underwhelming GPU performance and theorized only FCPX was able to use the second GPU card. The storage system is fast as expected. They claim the CPU is not upgradable
but GPU’s are. However, tear downs reveal that is could be upgraded as it’s socketed. But I would bank on ease or workability of those upgrades until actual parts and testing reveals if they will work.
But still waiting for a much more thorough review (i.e. Anandtech or Tom’s Hardware) to unravel mystery of GPUs.
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