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Apple Mac Pro "28-Core" 2.5 (2019) Specs

Identifiers: 2019 - BTO/CTO* - MacPro7,1 - A1991 - 3203

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Apple Mac Pro (2019 Tower Workstation)The 2019 Mac Pro represented Apple's triumphant return to a truly expandable, professional caliber Mac after the ill-fated cylinder design that preceded it. In many respects, the 2019 Mac Pro line is among the most expandable Macs that Apple ever has released. With twelve RAM slots and eight PCIe slots, it promised amazing potential for professional users.

Specifically, this model -- the Mac Pro "28-Core" 2.5 (2019) -- is powered by a single 2.5 GHz Twenty Eight Core Xeon W (3275M) processor with Turbo Boost up to 4.4 GHz and 66.5 MB of cache. Numerous custom configurations were available, but the default option originally was equipped with 32 GB of RAM, a 256 GB SSD, and AMD Radeon Pro 580X graphics with 8 GB of GDDR5 memory (on March 8, 2022, Apple changed the default configuration to a 512 GB SSD and an AMD Radeon Pro W5500X with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory; this model could be a different default configuration or a BTO/CTO option, as well).

In its default configuration, connectivity includes two USB 3 ports (on a pre-installed Apple I/O card), four Thunderbolt 3 ports (two on the Apple I/O card and two on the top of the case), two HDMI 2.0 ports (on the video card), two 10Gb Ethernet ports and a 3.5 mm headphone jack with headset support in addition to 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0. Of course, additional connectivity can be added with PCIe expansion cards.

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June 3, 2019* June 5, 2023
1 (28 Cores) 64-Bit
N/A N/A
N/A N/A
N/A N/A
5194 73713
1135 19174
2.5 GHz 28-Core Xeon W (W-3275M)
Details: This 64-bit 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon W processor (W-3275M) has 28 cores (and supports multithreading for 56; 28 real and 28 virtual). It supports Turbo Boost up to 4.4 GHz and has 66.5 MB of cache. It also has a T2 security chip.

Also see: How fast is the "2019" Mac Pro compared to earlier Mac Pro models? Are more expensive processors worth it? How fast is it compared to the iMac, iMac Pro, and Mac mini?
4.4 GHz N/A*
LGA 3647 (Socket P) Integrated
8 GT/s (DMI3)* 2.5 GHz (Built-in)
EFI 64-Bit
32k/32k x28 66.5 MB*
DDR4 ECC* 2933 MHz
Details: *Apple reports that the 28-Core Mac Pro (2019) model supports "2933 MHz" DDR4 ECC memory. More specifically, this model uses 288-pin PC23400 DDR4 RDIMM or LRDIMM memory modules (but you cannot mix RDIMMs and LRDIMMs in the same system).

Also see: How do you upgrade the RAM in the "2019" Mac Pro? How much RAM of what type and speed does it actually support?
32 GB* 1.5 TB
Details: *By default, the Mac Pro (2019) shipped with 32 GB of RAM (four 8 GB DIMMs). Other options for this Mac Pro "28-Core" 2.5 (2019) configuration include 48 GB (six 8 GB DIMMs) for an extra US$300, 96 GB (six 16 GB DIMMs) for an extra US$1000, 192 GB (six 32 GB DIMMs) for an extra US$3000, 384 GB (six 64 GB DIMMs) for an extra US$6000, 768 GB (six 128 GB DIMMs or twelve 64 GB DIMMs) for an extra US$14,000 or US$10,000, respectively, or 1.5 TB (twelve 128 GB DIMMs) for an extra US$25,000.

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None 12
AMD Radeon Pro 580X* GDDR5 SDRAM*
Details: *By default, this system originally shipped with AMD Radeon Pro 580X graphics. This graphics option has 8 GB of GDDR5 memory. Apple reports that it provides 36 compute units and 2304 stream processors and provides up to 5.6 teraflops of single precision performance. It uses a "half-height MPX module" that "fits in an MPX bay and enables PCIe slot 2 for additional expansion." On March 8, 2022, Apple quietly changed the standard graphics to the AMD Radeon Pro W5500X with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, which first was available as a custom configuration option starting on July 1, 2020.

This Mac Pro can be configured with two MPX modules (holding one or two GPUs, for a maximum of four GPUs). Originally, two other options from Apple included one or two MPX modules equipped with an AMD Radeon Pro Vega II or AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo for an extra US$2400 or US$5200, respectively.

On April 15, 2020, Apple added the option of one or two AMD Radeon Pro W5700X graphics processors for an additional US$600 or US$1600, respectively. On July 1, 2020, Apple added the option of a single Radeon Pro W5500X for an extra US$200. On August 3, 2021, Apple introduced the option of one or two AMD Radeon Pro W6800X (+US$2400, +US$5200), AMD Radeon Pro W6900X (+US$5600, +US$11,600), or AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo (+US$4600, +US$9600) graphics processors.

Finally, on March 8, 2022, Apple added the option of a single AMD Radeon Pro W6600X graphics processor for an extra US$300.

The AMD Radeon Pro Vega II has "64 compute units, 4096 stream processors, 32 GB of HBM2 memory with 1 TB/s of memory bandwidth, and an Infinity Fabric Link connection enables two Vega II GPUs to connect at up to 84 GB/s." It provides up to 14.1 teraflops of single precision or 28.2 teraflops of half precision performance.

The AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo has two AMD Radeon Pro Vega II GPUs, "each with 64 compute units and 4096 stream processors, 64 GB of HBM2 memory (32 GB per GPU), each with 1 TB/s memory bandwidth, and an onboard Infinity Fabric Link connection connects the two Vega II GPUs at up to 84 GB/s." It provides up to 28.2 teraflops of single precision or 56.4 teraflops of half precision performance.

The AMD Radeon Pro W5500X has 8 GB of GDDR6 memory and provides "up to 5.6 teraflops of single-precision or 11.2 teraflops of half-precision computing" performance. It is a half-height MPX module.

The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X has 16 GB of GDDR6 memory and provides "up to 9.4 teraflops of single-precision or 18.9 teraflops of half-precision computing" performance. It is a full-height MPX module.

The AMD Radeon Pro W6600X has 8 GB of GDDR6 memory and provides "up to 9.8 teraflops of single-precision or 19.6 teraflops of half-precision computing" performance. It is a half-height MPX module.

The AMD Radeon Pro W6800X has 32 GB of GDDR6 memory and provides "up to 16.0 teraflops of single-precision or 32.0 teraflops of half-precision computing" performance. It is a full-height MPX module.

The AMD Radeon Pro W6900X has 32 GB of GDDR6 memory and provides "up to 22.2 teraflops of single-precision or 44.4 teraflops of half-precision computing" performance. It is a full-height MPX module.

The AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo has twoAMD Radeon Pro W6800X GPUs, each with "32 GB of GDDR6 memory delivering up to 512GB/s memory bandwidth" connected onboard with Infinity Fabric Link." It provides "30.2 teraflops of single-precision or 60.4 teraflops of half-precision computing" performance. It is a full-height MPX module.

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8 GB* 64 GB*
Up to 4-6 Displays* 4K/5K/6K*
Details: *With the original default AMD Radeon Pro 580X graphics processor, this Mac Pro supports "up to six 4K displays, two 5K displays, or two [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs." It has two HDMI 2.0 ports on the card and four DisplayPort connections routed to the system to support the internal Thunderbolt 3 ports. On March 8, 2022, Apple quietly changed the standard graphics to the AMD Radeon Pro W5500X, which supports "up to four 4K displays, one 5K display, or one [6K Apple] Pro Display XDR." It has two HDMI 2.0 ports on the card and two DisplayPort connections routed to the system to support the internal Thunderbolt 3 ports.

Other options include an AMD Radeon Pro Vega II, AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo, AMD Radeon Pro W5700X, AMD Radeon Pro W6600X, AMD Radeon Pro W6800X, AMD Radeon Pro W6900X, and AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo.

The AMD Radeon Pro Vega II supports "up to six 4K displays, three 5K displays, or two [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs" and has four Thunderbolt 3 ports and one HDMI 2.0 port on the card as well as two DisplayPort connections routed to the system to support the internal Thunderbolt 3 ports. The AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo supports "up to eight 4K displays, four 5K displays, or four [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs" and has four Thunderbolt 3 ports and one HDMI 2.0 port on the card as well as four DisplayPort connections routed to the system to support the internal Thunderbolt 3 ports.

The AMD Radeon Pro W6600X supports "up to four 4K displays, one 5K display, or two [6K Apple] Pro Display XDR" and has two HDMI ports on the card with support for 4K60 in addition to two DisplayPort connections routed to the system to support the internal Thunderbolt 3 ports.

The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X, AMD Radeon Pro W6800X, and AMD Radeon Pro W6900X support "up to six 4K displays, three 5K displays, or three [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs" and have four Thunderbolt 3 ports and one HDMI 2.0 port on the card and two DisplayPort connections routed to the system to support the internal Thunderbolt 3 ports.

Finally, the AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo supports "up to eight 4K displays, four 5K displays, or six [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs" and four Thunderbolt 3 ports and one HDMI 2.0 port on the card and four DisplayPort connections routed to the system to support the internal Thunderbolt 3 ports.
Dual/Mirroring 4K/5K/6K*
Details: *Additional display support depends on the installed video card. With the original default AMD Radeon Pro 580X graphics processor, this Mac Pro supports "up to six 4K displays, two 5K displays, or two [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs." On March 8, 2022, Apple quietly changed the standard graphics to the AMD Radeon Pro W5500X, which supports "up to four 4K displays, one 5K display, or one [6K Apple] Pro Display XDR." With an optional video card upgrade, this model can support fewer or more displays, though.

The AMD Radeon Pro W5500X supports fewer displays -- "up to four 4K displays, one 5K display, or one [6K Apple] Pro Display XDR." All other video cards support more displays than the deafult.

The AMD Radeon Pro Vega II supports "up to six 4K displays, three 5K displays, or two [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs" and the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo supports "up to eight 4K displays, four 5K displays, or four [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs."

The AMD Radeon Pro W6600X supports "up to four 4K displays, one 5K display, or two [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs."

The AMD Radeon Pro W5700X, AMD Radeon Pro W6800X, and AMD Radeon Pro W6900X support "up to six 4K displays, three 5K displays, or three [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs." Finally, the AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo supports "up to eight 4K displays, four 5K displays, or six [6K Apple] Pro Display XDRs."
256, 512 GB SSD* 3.4 GB/s*
Details: *The original default storage is a 256 GB SSD. On March 8, 2022, Apple quietly upgraded the standard storage to a 512 GB SSD.

Apple also offers 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB, or 8 TB of SSD storage configured with two 512 GB, two 1 TB, two 2 TB, or two 4 TB SSD modules, respectively. The 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB, and 8 TB SSD storage upgrade options originally cost an additional US$400, US$800, US$1400, and US$2600, respectively. On March 8, 2022, Apple cut the cost of each upgrade by US$200, so the upgrade options cost US$200, US$600, US$1200, and US$2400, respectively.

Apple originally reported "up to 2.6GB/s sequential read and 2.7GB/s sequential write performance" but increased this to "up to 3.4GB/s sequential read and write performance" when the system shipped on December 10, 2019.

Also see: How do you upgrade the storage in the "2019" Mac Pro? How many internal drives of what type actually are supported? What is the best external storage option?

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Also see: SSD Compatibility Guide for All G3 & Later Macs.
Proprietary* Proprietary*
None* None
None 10Gb (x2)
Details: This system has two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Apple reports that the system offers "support for 10Gb Ethernet performance over copper cabling" as well as "support for Nbase-T industry standard: 1Gb, 2.5Gb, 5Gb, and 10Gb Ethernet link speeds."
802.11ac 5.0
2 (3.0), 4 (C)* None
8 PCIe* See Details**
Details: *This Mac Pro has eight PCI Express expansion slots.

Four PCIe slots accommodate two MPX modules, intended by default for graphics cards. Apple reports that each of the two MPX bays "provides x16 Gen 3 bandwidth for graphics, x8 Gen 3 bandwidth for Thunderbolt, DisplayPort video routing and up to 500W power for an MPX module." Alternately, Apple explains that the first MPX bay can accommodate "one full-length, double-wide x16 Gen 3 slot and one full-length, double-wide x8 gen 3 slot" or, in the second MPX bay, it can accommodate "two full-length, double-wide x16 gen 3 slots." The MPX bays can provide "up to 300W auxiliary power via two 8-pin connectors."

In addition, to the PCIe slots provided via the MPX bays, this Mac Pro has three full-length PCIe Gen 3 slots (one x16 slot; two x8 slots) with 75W of auxiliary power available; and one half-length x4 PCIe Gen 3 slot with an Apple I/O card installed by default.

As an option, Apple offered an "Afterburner" ProRes and ProRes RAW accelerator card for the PCIe x16 slot. This card cost an additional US$2000 and "accelerates ProRes and ProRes RAW codecs" in Final Cut Pro X and supported third-party software. This Afterburner card supports "playback of up to 3 streams of 8K ProRes RAW or up to 12 streams of 4K ProRes RAW" and can process up to 6 billion pixels per second.

**In lieu of more traditional drive bays, this Mac Pro accommodates two blade SSDs, but the PCIe slots enable a wide variety of third-party internal storage options.

Also see: How many PCIe slots of what type are provided by the "2019" Mac Pro? How do you upgrade or replace a PCIe card in the "2019" Mac Pro?

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Magic Keyboard w/ Numeric* Magic Mouse 2*
Tower Mac Pro (2019)
BTO/CTO* 2019
A1991 (EMC 3203) MacPro7,1
Details: Please note that these identifiers are shared by multiple configurations.

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N/A N/A
X 10.15.1 (19B88) Current*
10 (64-Bit)* 10 (64-Bit)*
None Boot/Virtualization
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20.8 x 8.58 x 17.7 39.7 lbs. (18.0 kg)
US$12,999 US$7000-US$8500
Details: The Mac Pro "28-Core" 2.5 (2019) with the 28-Core Xeon processor, Radeon Pro 580X graphics processor, 32 GB of RAM, and a 256 GB SSD originally cost US$12,999. Numerous custom configuration options were available that would increase the price.

Please note that on average the estimated current retail pricing of used systems is updated twice a year (please refer to the date on the bottom of the page for the date last updated).

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4 (Thunderbolt 3), 2 (HDMI 2.0)* None
Details: *In its default configuration, with an AMD Radeon Pro 580X video card, this system has four Thunderbolt 3 ports (two on a pre-installed Apple I/O card in the half-length x4 PCIe slot and two on the top of the case) and two HDMI 2.0 ports on the video card. With an AMD Radeon Pro W5500X, it also has two HDMI 2.0 ports on the video card.

All other video cards that Apple offers -- the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II, AMD Radeon Pro Vega II Duo, AMD Radeon Pro W5700X, AMD Radeon Pro W6800X, AMD Radeon Pro W6900X, and AMD Radeon Pro W6800X Duo -- have four Thunderbolt 3 ports on the video card, but only one HDMI 2.0 port. Accordingly, in total, the these other video card options provide eight total Thunderbolt 3 ports (two on the Apple I/O card, two on top of the case and four on the video card) but only one HDMI 2.0 port (on the video card).

Of course, other connectivity can be added via the PCIe slots, too.

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None None
None None
2 (3.0), 4 (C)* None
Details: *By default, this Mac Pro has two USB 3 ports (USB-A up to 5 Gb/s) and four Thunderbolt 3 ports (support for Thunderbolt 3 up to 40 Gb/s and USB-C up to 10 Gb/s as well as DisplayPort). Two of the Thunderbolt 3 ports are provided by a pre-installed Apple I/O card and two are on the top of the tower case. Some optional video cards provide as many as four more Thunderbolt 3 ports. Other connectivity can be added via PCIe cards, as well.

Also see: How many PCIe slots of what type are provided by the "2019" Mac Pro? How do you upgrade or replace a PCIe card in the "2019" Mac Pro?
None 2 (RJ-45)
Details: Two 10Gb Ethernet ports (RJ-45) as well as 802.11ac Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n compatible) and Bluetooth 5.0 standard.
None None
1* 1*
1* 1*
None None
1 N/A

Global original prices for the Mac Pro "28-Core" 2.5 (2019) in 34 different countries and territories follow; organized alphabetically by region.

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Original Prices - North & South America

C$15,899 R$111.999
MXN $309,999 US$12,999

Original Prices - Europe

€14,899 €14,899
DKK 110,199 €14,999
€14,899 €14,899
€14,999 €14,999
€14 406,47 €14,899
NOK 145,990 €14,999
€14,899 SEK 148,995
CHF 14'078 £11,799

Original Prices - Asia

RMB 99,379 HK$100,599
N/A N/A
¥1,369,800 KRW 16,474,000
RM 56,799 PHP 709,990
S$18,499 NT$418,100
THB 469,900 N/A

Original Prices - Australia & New Zealand

A$21,199 NZ$22,699

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