The future Mac Pro will be less upgradeable than expected. The Mac Pro with Apple Silicon CPU, the desktop that is missing to complete the company’s transition to the new CPUs, will probably be a sort of Mac Studio but more powerful and bulkier.
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This is what Bloomberg’s always well-informed Mark Gurman suggests in a tweet, explaining that the GPU will not be upgradable and also the RAM will not be user replaceable (previously there were rumors that it would be possible to add / modify the combination of RAM memory modules).
The Mac Pro is expected to boast up to a 76-core GPU and offer the user the ability to tweak storage options. From an aesthetic point of view, the design should remain the same as the current Mac Pro, and the difference between the Mac Pro and Mac Studio, as well as the M1 Ultra and M2 Ultra, would be the performance at this point, thanks also to the possibility of integrating bigger houses bigger cooling systems.
Rumors had previously circulated according to which the future Mac Pro would be somewhat updatable (a bit like the current one, although this requires various more or less proprietary components) and Gurman himself had hinted at possible GPU support external and removable storage. The possibilities for intervention seem to decrease but let’s console ourselves with the performance: in addition to the GPU with up to 76 cores integrated in what will probably be an M2 Ultra or M2 “Extreme” SoC, Apple should exploit M1/M2 SoCs with an even greater number of performance cores and even higher memory bandwidth support.
Gurman previously reported that Apple would cancel plans for a top-of-the-line 48-core CPU and 152-core GPU Mac Pro due to high costs and potentially only appealing to niche markets.
