hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the new Mac Pro I've been
looking forward to this for quite some time in fact I used to have the trashcan
Mac Pro and that was one of the worst Apple computers I've actually owned so
I've been using an iMac Pro in the mean time but I've really wanted a modular
Mac Pro so let's go ahead and unbox this then we'll do an overview of the actual
Mac Pro itself and then maybe run a couple benchmarks based on the same
videos I exported in things with the MacBook Pro review not too long ago so
this box is about 80 pounds or so according to the UPS label it's got
velcro straps on the side to help you undo it so you pull these and then it
just comes out like that and then the same thing on the other side and I'll
talk about the specifications and things in just a moment and then this just
pulls off in half so it comes off like this and this is a really hefty box if
you look inside here it's really well protected and very very nice so let me
set that down and here's the Mac Pro itself now inside are a bunch of
accessories so let's take a look at that quick so this looks like it's the mouse
and cable and I didn't order the trackpad I didn't know it was a
different color so I already had a space for a one and let's see what we've got
here so we have a braided cable and it's a braided lightning to USB C cable so
that's pretty nice and then we also have a Magic Mouse and it's silver on the
bottom and then black on the top and this is a little bit different than the
one you get with the iMac pro the iMac pro has space grey on the bottom instead
of silver so I'll set this aside and then here we have the keyboard so I
think it's a full size keyboard it is and this is silver with black keys so
instead of Space Gray it matches the case of the Mac Pro and then I think
that's it as far as what's in here so let me put this away now here's the Mac
Pro itself this is incredibly heavy so let me see if I can lift it this way
now inside we have a little pamphlet now actually had a pull-tab on it that
ripped off when I tried to pull this out so see what we've got here we have a
MacPro manual looks like welcome to Mac Pro it's in the color and everything so
it's really nice I'll look over this maybe a little bit later we have some
instructions about the box for some reason I don't know if this is for all
this is for recycling your box and then thought there were Apple stickers there
are but they're stuck in here and here are the Apple stickers they're pretty
large and then down here we have our power cable and this is a braided power
cable so it's unlike some others it's very thick too so you can see that it's
braided it's very nice so I'll set this aside and let's take a
look at the Mac Pro itself so here is the Mac Pro it's about the same size as
the previous Mac Pro the larger cheese grater one let's go ahead and take this
cover off it and it's got this nice wrapping on it see here
well there's another piece here on the bottom so this is the Mac Pro and to
give you a size comparison it's about the same size as the previous cheese
grater Mac or here's an iPhone 11 Pro Max so it's a huge machine for a Mac
but that's good because I can fully configure it now if you take a look on
the top you see we've got some plastic lines around where the handles are I
haven't really heard anyone else mention this but this is where the antennas are
for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and things like that when you have an aluminum enclosure
you need to have some place to actually have the antennas outside so they put
those right here now on top you've got a power button
you've got a status light here and then you've got two Thunderbolt three ports
and then you have the handle to take the top off this is one piece of aluminum
these sides look like they were screwed on afterward but you just lift it and
then you turn it like this and then pull straight up and it's pretty heavy now on
the back here you'll see the RAM modules so the RAM goes underneath these covers
and then on the other side this is where we have everything that's configured so
in this one this is the heatsink there's no afterburner card but there are two
Radeon pre-pro Vega 2 MPX modules so dual graphics cards and this is kind of
interesting because this is not the configuration that I actually ordered in
fact I ordered a 12 core with 32 gigs of ram 1 MPX module that was a radiant pro
Vega 2 an afterburner card and 2 terabyte SSD what Apple actually sent is
much better than that so this is a 16 core CPU it's got 2 Radian Pro Vega 2
modules and then it has 96 gigabytes of RAM and 4 terabytes of storage so this
is about a 3 $4,000 more expensive configuration than
the one I actually ordered and so I thought the only right thing to do was
give Apple a call and let them know they actually sent me a more expensive one
and so I did that and they gave me two options they said they'd send me a
return label to return this and get the configuration I ordered or if I was
happy with this I could just keep it at their loss so obviously I decided to
keep it and I was pretty stunned that it was that simple but they said go ahead
and keep it have a nice day happy holidays and that was it
so I'll keep the better configuration the serial numbers match what I actually
have registered to me so I'm not sure what happened there but I guess it
worked out and I paid for a lesser configuration so that's really nice now
one of the things that's neat is the four terabyte SSD is underneath this
piece here it's not user serviceable because it's bound to the apples t2
security chip so you can't really change those but you can upgrade the storage
yourself by adding different SSDs or hard drives to the Mac Pro now on the
top you'll see this is one piece of aluminum and this is actually the
locking mechanism where it locks with the top you've got your Thunderbolt
ports here and there's your power button so this is a really nice machined
aluminum very simple but very elegant also the feet are removable but I'm not
going to use the wheels and then on the back we have a ton of ports so on the
back the top every Mac Pro gets these two USB a and two Thunderbolt three so
you've got two on the top two on the back and then you get four more
Thunderbolt three ports for every MPX module you have so four Thunderbolt
three and an HDMI then four more Thunderbolt three HDMI and then you've
got dual gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet and your power adapter at the bottom so
it's really nice very well built and then you have your fans on the front and
the fans obviously cool the whole thing and supposedly it's pretty quiet it
doesn't have a fan or water cooling over the heatsink of the CPU so hopefully it
keeps it nice and cool while it's actually blowing air through and suppose
it's silent when even doing intensive tasks now before I put this top on one
thing you may not have seen is inside this so it's got gaskets to seal and
everything else it's really nice well made very nicely machined so let me go
ahead and put it on top of this and latch it on and we just turn it and
that's it it's latched down now I decided not to go with the pro display
XDR maybe I'll get one in the future but I have a 5k by 2 k LG ultra wide which
is more than enough for doing 4k videos on YouTube and in the future maybe when
I bump that resolution up to 6 K I could get an 8k Dell monitor but at this point
4k is enough for me and most people are watching 1080p on their phones anyway so
this should help me compress footage very quickly now I set up the Mac Pro
installed all of my software had to do a software update that took about 20
minutes and then I decided to run a bunch of benchmarks after everything has
settled down now the first thing I did was run a disk speed test and that was
pretty fast just like all of the modern Macs it came in at two thousand eight
hundred and sixteen for write speed two thousand six hundred and ninety-four for
read speed and that's basically what you would expect with any current Mac with
their latest SSDs in them it will go a little bit faster and then a little bit
slower but that's pretty average for what we would expect
then I ran Geekbench I used Geekbench v to see what these scores would be and
keep in mind Geekbench v is a little bit lower than what Geekbench four would
show us now also keep in mind that this is you is using xeon processors that are
very similar in speed to what's in an imac pro so for some of these scores
they'll be pretty similar but with all the extra hardware in here that's where
the difference in speed comes now for Geekbench single-core came in at 1009
where multi-core came in at fourteen thousand two hundred and sixty nine from
multi-core to give you a little bit of a comparison the latest 2019 macbook pro
comes in around six thousand or so so it's pretty
now the next thing I did was run metal and metal let me select just one GPU and
with one GPU I scored eight thousand or eighty-seven thousand five hundred and
forty eight and again you can do that on two separate GPUs so that's pretty fast
and then also I ran another test using OpenCL they're basically the same score
and then I ran Cinebench and unfortunately Cinebench only lets us
measure the CPU now not the GPU but it was pretty fast six thousand five
hundred and nineteen and then finally I exported 4k video now the final test I
did was with Final Cut Pro I exported a 4k 60p video in fact it's the exact same
video file that I exported with the 2019 MacBook Pro and the iMac Pro in the
previous video so it's about ten minutes and 22 seconds long and it's a 4k 60p
video so it's much slower to export than 4k 30 or 4 K 24 so just keep that in
mind and what I did is delete all the render
files and that's unfortunate for this device because normally that's where it
excels when you have all of the editing done usually your rendering is done
because these machines are so fast and rendering in the background but for
comparison with the iMac Pro the iMac Pro exported this in 13 minutes and 15
seconds the MacBook Pro exported it in 11 minutes and 45 seconds whereas this
Mac Pro exported it in 9 minutes and 38 seconds now I haven't seen the footage
that I've been recording in lately export under the amount of time that the
video is in a very long time so if a video is 10 minutes long this is
actually faster than 10 minutes so that's really good for the type of video
editing I do and how I actually do everything so I'm pretty impressed with
that and as I use different types of footage with it like C 200 raw footage
this will help tremendously but I'd love to hear what you have to say about this
in the comments below I know the Mac Pro is super expensive but it's meant to be
a workstation PC that you use all the time and you can do whatever you want
with it configure it however you want and upgrade it over time so I plan to
use this probably over the next 5 years or so as I upgrade
as needed I can upgrade the CPU if needed upgrade the graphics cards as
needed but let me know what you think in the comments below if you haven't
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