OWC has confirmed that the new Mac Pro processor is indeed upgradeable. The company discovered that the desktop had a removable CPU in its tear down last week.
We got our hands on an Intel E5-2667 V2 8-core 3.30GHz with 25MB Cache processor, installed it in the new Mac Pro and have done some benchmarking to get an early look at the performance vs. the stock Apple / Intel E5-1650 V2 6-core 3.50GHz with 12MB Cache model. The testing was done with 64GB of OWC memory installed.
Their benchmarking showed a 30% multi-processor performance bump with the upgraded chip. That bests the 12-core performance of the previous generation Mac Pro.
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We got our hands on an Intel E5-2667 V2 8-core 3.30GHz with 25MB Cache processor, installed it in the new Mac Pro and have done some benchmarking to get an early look at the performance vs. the stock Apple / Intel E5-1650 V2 6-core 3.50GHz with 12MB Cache model. The testing was done with 64GB of OWC memory installed.
Their benchmarking showed a 30% multi-processor performance bump with the upgraded chip. That bests the 12-core performance of the previous generation Mac Pro.
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