Alternatively, you can use the bottom half of the PCIe slots for up to two MPX Modules and up to four GPUs onboard. There are four double-wide PCIe slots on the bottom half of the logic board. Additionally, there is a pair of 10Gb RJ45 ethernet ports directly attached to the PSU bay. There are also two Thunderbolt 3 ports on top of the Mac Pro’s case. The half-length slot up top is preconfigured with the Apple I/O card featuring two USB 3.0 ports with USB-A connectors (up to 5Gb/s), two Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports (up to 40Gb/s and 10Gb/s, respectively), and a headphone jack. Four are single-width and three of those can handle full-length cards. There are eight PCI Express slots for additional expansion. In order to use the full 1.5TB of RAM, you’ll need the 24-core or 28-core processor. There are 12 user-accessible DIMM slots for up to 1.5TB of DDR4 ECC memory. The processor configuration ranges from an 8-core to 28-core Intel Xeon W processor. The core design takes us back to the popular cheese grater tower from 2006-2012 and internal specs received a substantial bump from the 2013 Mac Pro design. The downside (with Apple there’s always a downside) is that the new Mac Pro is quite expensive with a starting price of $6,000. After nearly six years of dealing with the trash can (along with a fair share of criticism), Apple announced a proper successor to the Mac Pro today.

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