Apple Mac Pro or Upgrade AMD Radeon HD 7900

Careful people recently discovered "Tahiti" in the video driver file of the latest test version of Mac OS X 10.7.3, which is exactly the development code of AMD's next-generation high-end graphics card Radeon HD 7900 series, suggesting that it has been a long time The upgraded Mac Pro product line may introduce AMD's next-generation architecture.

Mac Pro is Apple's only product line that uses desktop discrete graphics. However, since the July 2010 upgrade of the Intel Xeon processor with six cores and twelve threads, and the Radeon HD 5770/5870 series of graphics cards, there has been no movement. The 2011 Apple In large-scale updates, it is still only silk.

In October this year, there were reports that Apple is developing the new Mac Pro internally, but it is still unknown whether it will be finalized. According to people familiar with the matter, Apple's management is still evaluating whether it is worth investing more resources in the Mac Pro series, because sales of such high-end workstations have dropped so much that they can no longer generate enough profits for Apple.

It is said that if the Mac Pro is really upgraded again, it will not only introduce the AMD Radeon HD 7900 graphics card, but will also be equipped with up to eight core 16-thread Intel Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon E5-2600 series processors, and they will all be in 2012. First quarter launch.

Thunderbolt, USB 3.0, Bluetooth 4.0 and other technologies are also expected to appear in the new Mac Pro.