The $10,000 Mac Pro Killer
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The video opens by framing Apple’s Mac Pro as an embarrassment, arguing that it sits well behind current competition and notably lacks the newest M3 silicon. The host immediately contrasts the Mac Pro with a custom PC build, highlighting price disparities and storage upgrade costs as central issues. From there, the team lays out the core components of PC Pro 2, including an AMD Threadripper 7970X processor, a socketed motherboard (Gigabyte TRX50 Aero D), and a total of 384 GB of DDR5 memory across four slots. They explain the rationale for choosing a dual RTX 4090 setup, one air cooled and one liquid cooled due to current hardware shortages and case/motherboard constraints, and discuss the challenges of fitting two high-end GPUs into a single chassis. The narrative then moves to storage strategy, using 16 TB of NVMe in a RAID-less setup while noting the Mac Pro’s price for 8 TB versus the PC Pro’s expanded capacity, arguing that the PC build delivers far more value per dollar. Finally, the hosts compare performance through Cinebench and gaming benchmarks, emphasize the real-world implications of memory bandwidth and PCIe lane counts, and conclude that the PC Pro 2 is typically ahead on measured workloads while acknowledging Apple’s software ecosystem advantages in other contexts.
Topics · hardware_review · pc_build · performance_benchmark · apple_ecosystem
Questions answered
- Why does the PC Pro 2 use two RTX 4090 cards instead of a single more powerful GPU?
- The build uses two RTX 4090 cards to maximize available GPU horsepower within the chosen chassis and PCIe slot spacing, and to demonstrate how two high-end GPUs perform relative to a similarly specced Mac Pro, even though one is air cooled and the other liquid cooled due to hardware constraints and availability.
- What is the main criticism of the Mac Pro in this video?
- The main critique is that the Mac Pro is overpriced for its component choices and upgrade options, offering less total memory, fewer PCIe lanes, and limited upgrade paths compared to a similarly specced PC Pro 2 build.