Do You Need 12 Cores For A Mac Pro To Run Music Software

Apr 04, 2007  Why do you need 8 Cores? Discussion in 'Mac Pro' started by Mr. MacBook, Apr. Location: Netherlands #26. Lycanthrope said: ↑ Why do I want? Well I like to run multiple apps in parallel and get pissed off at the slightest drop in performance. Multimedia, just a quick question. What specs do you hope to pack your 8 core Mac Pro with,.

Has hell frozen over? Lol nah just practical or pragmatic. -- Wendell A lot of people have asked me about this, and hackintoshes, so I did a video on it. It's a bit long and a bit boring, but this should tell you everything you need to know if you want to do something similar. This is a great way to get a 100% genuine mac to do software development on that also doesn't break the bank.

Be sure you carefully check that the CPUs you might get are compatible. These Macs can be tempermental. Unfortunately, thunderbolt is just not an option for these, though. No thunderbolt support from the chipset, so I'm not sure that'll ever be possible.

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The differences between the and the are minimal—an update, really, with graphics and processor speeds brought up to 2010 standards. If there is one new specification that sets this generation apart from previous Mac Pros (and all previous Mac, for that matter), it is the new, double-digit number of processing cores available in one system. The new Intel Xeon Westmere processors that make their Apple debut with the new offer up to six cores per processor.

And for $5000, you can outfit a Mac Pro with two six-core processors, for a total of 12 processing cores. That system ships with a 1TB 7200-rpm hard drive, 6GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card with 1GB of video memory. The new Westmere processors support Intel’s Hyper Threading technology that can offer twice as many virtual cores (24 in this case) to applications that can make use of them. The processors also use TurboBoost technology to power down those extra cores when idle to provide more power to the one or two cores that a typical application might actually use. 2.66GHz Xeon Westmere 12-core Mac Pro Speedmark scores If 24 virtual cores seems like a lot, you’re not alone.

Problems enable universal access for steam on mac. How to Enable Universal Access. Click the lock on the bottom left to make changes to the menu. Close System Preferences. Re-Open System Preferences and do everything from Step 2 and Step 3. Check Steam this time. Close System Preferences, and Restart your Computer. When you re-open Steam and run a game, the Universal Access should start.

In our old Speedmark 6 benchmark test suite, we used CineBench R10, which had a hard time using all of those cores; the software crashed when attempting to run the multiple CPU test. Fortunately, CineBench R15 was introduced a few months ago and it supports 24 (and more) processor cores. The updated CineBench test is included in our brand spanking new test suite, which we used to measure this system’s performance against other Macs.

If the $5000 price didn’t give it away, our tests of the 12-core Mac Pro show that this Mac Pro is not meant for the average consumer. With and lower-priced Mac Pros outperforming the 12-core model at many everyday tasks, it was only in the handful of high-end, specialized software tests that the 12-core Mac Pro shined. Results from HandBrake, CineBench CPU, and MathematicaMark (all using the available 24 virtual processing cores), were the fastest we’ve seen.

The 12-core Mac Pro’s Speedmark 6.5 score was 21 percent faster than the ( ), with a 52 percent higher MathematicaMark score, 36 percent faster CineBench R15 CPU score, and 19 percent faster HandBrake result. The new 12-core Mac Pro was 26 percent faster overall than the new ( ), a quad-core system running at 2.8GHz. As shown in our ' report, the 12-core Mac Pro was not the overall speed king in our tests. It was outperformed by a $3699 built-to-order (BTO) Mac Pro with a 3.33GHz 6-core Xeon Westmere processor, which was faster in 10 of our 17 tests, and matched the 12-core Mac Pro’s scores in two other tests. Testing the 12-core Mac Pro with 12GB of RAM (six 2GB DIMMs provided by ) showed very little improvement over the 12-core Mac Pro with 6GB of RAM—just one Speedmark point. The 12-core Mac Pro was 34 percent faster, overall, than the 2009, and 42 percent faster than the 2009. Compared to the high-end standard configuration ( ), the 12-core Mac Pro was 33 percent faster overall.