Mac Pro 2019

The Rack-Mountable Mac Pro (2019) models share identical internal components to their tower counterparts, but feature a different chassis design (engineered to fit into a 5U rack), have different identifiers, and initially retailed at a premium price.

This particular configuration, the Mac Pro "16-Core" 3.2 (2019 - Rack-Mountable) -- features a single 3.2 GHz Sixteen Core Xeon W (3245) processor with Turbo Boost reaching 4.4 GHz and 38MB of cache. Multiple configuration options were offered, but the standard configuration included 32GB of RAM, a 256 GB SSD, and AMD Radeon Pro 580X graphics with 8GB of GDDR5 memory (as of March 8, 2022, Apple updated the standard configuration to a 512 GB SSD and an AMD Radeon Pro W5500X with 8GB of GDDR6 memory; this model may represent an alternative standard configuration or a BTO/CTO option, too).

In its default configuration, connectivity options include two USB 3 ports (via a pre-installed Apple I/O card), four Thunderbolt 3 ports (two on the Apple I/O card and two at the front of the chassis), two HDMI 2.0 ports (on the video card), two 10Gb Ethernet ports and a 3.5 mm headphone jack with headset support along with 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0. Additionally, additional connectivity can be expanded using PCIe expansion cards.

This rack-mountable Mac Pro with a 16-core CPU offered the formidable power of the tower version in a format optimized for data centers and mobile production racks. The significant performance uplift from the 12-core model was particularly evident in fields that heavily utilize parallel processing, such as video rendering and scientific computing. [24] For professionals requiring a high core count, this increase in processing power directly translated to enhanced productivity. While it commanded a correspondingly high price, it shared the same excellent I/O and expandability as the tower version, establishing itself as an exceptionally powerful option for specialized environments where space efficiency was a primary concern.