New Mac Pro

Yes, I am aware that the same GPU core is used in the consumer and professional cards. But certain features are disabled in addition to the driver differences on the consumer models.

CUDA now completely sucks on the GeForce 600 series for example.

Yes, I am aware that the same GPU core is used in the consumer and professional cards. But certain features are disabled in addition to the driver differences on the consumer models.

CUDA now completely sucks on the GeForce 600 series for example.

"Cheap" 6 GB total SLI setup..

Sorry to say this but, why do you fuck with everyone so much?

If you knew what you were talking about, you'd know that when it comes to opencl/opengl you have the same performance from "cheap" consumer oriented and pro oriented cards, if they share the same chip of course.

Do you even know what ECC means? Please enlighten me without changing tabs and switching over to wikipedia to check what ecc memory is and where it is most crucial (hint: definitely not in a prosumer ecosystem towards which the mac pro is oriented)

It's also clear from his post that,for 7.5k and that specs he cited, he must have used intel processors and not those bullcrap amd bulldozer chips (that by the way don't support dual cpu configs) (unless you're talking about amd's opteron offerings, that also suck balls.

and to finish it off, 26inch at 1080p is "blatantly low end"?
What about this 1200p measly 24" monitor? is it "blatantly low end" too?
http://www.imagescience.com.au/produ...libration.html

Now i'm sorry if i was rude in this post, it's just that you're becoming a bit too hateful towards...well... everyone here.

Reference monitors lie in the tens of thousands price range. At 26" I would expect 1200p as a bare minimum, and 1440p ideally.

I built 16 cores, Dual 7970s, 1TB SSD, Dual Closed Loop Watercooling, 64 GB of RAM for 7k, INCLUDING two 1080p 26 inch Monitors. For 7,200. If they can match or beat that with 12 cores, I guess they will be doing pretty good compared to their previous track record of pricing.

There's nothing "pro" about it.
It's gonna cost an eye, an arm and a leg. 3k minimum, given the fact it's manufactured in the USA.
And it has NO expandability whatsoever.

Want to install your REDrocket in that baby to, you know, edit PRO videos? Well that's just too bad.

"oh well yeah but you have thunderbolt 2 and shit"

So what? Taking bandwidth away from the GPUs? Fantastic!

This is not a PRO machine. This is just a nice-looking, heavily engineered prosumer unit which is going to look just oh-so-damn-cool together with those harman kardon soundsticks.

EDIT: also, 3k will probably be a quadcore model.

The 12core will probably weigh in at something like 7-8k, which is more than enough to build a 16core watercooled beast that will crunch the crap out of this, raw power-wise. Will it look as sleek and small? No.
Will you have the pleasure of having a better rig for the same price? Hell yeah.

The only thing I can find with searches is how TB has lower latency than USB.

Sorry, didn't mean to imply per card. Where are you getting information about Thunderbolt having significant latency vs regular PCIE?

http://www.dv247.com/news/Pro%20Tool...%20Avid/133280

Boom.

Thunderbolt is external PCI-E, it's basically NO different to having an internal PCI-E card.

Just for comparison a 1x PCI-E 3.0 card has a theoretical throughput of 980MB/s; Thunderbolt is 10Gbit/s, aka 1.25GB/s.

The RME HDSPe AIO, a

I have a couple thunderbolt promise pegasus arrays and I gotta say they are wicked fast. Thunderbolt is great technology - not sure why some folks are calling it bunk.

The Fire Pros are there for compute performance more than anything. If you don't need such high performance, then you obviously wouldn't buy the machine.

Being able to "afford" something like this doesn't really apply in the same way as a typical computer as they are not consumer-oriented.

Fair enough. Be aware, however, that your behaviour is literally now bordering on just plain trolling.