Apple nonetheless sells an Intel-based Mac Professional that we’re fairly positive nobody is shopping for as a result of the Apple silicon improve is coming quickly (we predict). However there may be a purpose why you’d wish to purchase the Mac Professional’s graphic MPX modules proper now, particularly in case you are a Home windows PC gamer.
YouTuber Roman “der8auer” Hartung purchased a kind of graphic MPX modules, particularly the Radeon Professional W6800X Duo, which sells for $5,000 within the Apple Retailer. (Apple marks it as “New,” nevertheless it truly arrived means again in August 2021.) He needed to check it on a PC and examine its efficiency to AMD’s newer graphics playing cards, and after a large amount of effort, he obtained it working.
The video is over 22 minutes, nevertheless it’s an interesting take a look at the inside workings of this MPX module. The footage features a full teardown of the module, an examination of the elements, the way it was powered and linked to the PC, and the way the motive force issues had been addressed. You may skip to the benchmark comparability if that’s all you’re enthusiastic about, however we suggest watching the entire video.
Mac customers could not understand that the PC graphics card market is unstable proper now, with persistent out-of-stock issues that result in inflated costs. If a PC consumer is out of luck and is keen to go to excessive measures for a high-performing graphics card, der8auer exhibits the right way to do it.
The module was examined on the PC utilizing 3DMark’s Time Spy Excessive benchmark, and the outcomes present that the Radeon Professional W6800X Duo module was fairly quick. It’s quicker than the RX 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 graphics playing cards, two playing cards which might be so common that our sister web site, PCWorld, did a head-to-head comparability of the 2 playing cards. (There’s a little bit of apples-to-oranges comparability occurring in der8auer’s testing as a result of the W6800X Duo is actually two graphics playing cards performing as one, whereas the RX 7900 XTX and RTX 4080 every have just one GPU.)
Apple is rumored to be launching a brand new Mac Professional with Apple silicon this 12 months, nevertheless it may not help third-party graphics playing cards like the present mannequin. This video a reminder of what Apple could also be giving up with the transition—a versatile enlargement system that’s as elegant as it’s highly effective.
