Apple Mac Pro 2013 + 24″ monitor

There is no mistaking the “Late 2013” Mac Pro models for earlier ones as they present an Apple described “radical” departure from the large, highly expandable tower case design of yore and instead feature a compact dark gray, glossy cylinder design that is approximately one eighth of the mass but has limited internal expansion.

Apple explains that these “Space Gray” cylinder Mac Pro models are “designed around an innovative unified thermal core” and have not only faster processors than earlier models but also dual workstation class graphics processors, faster memory, and faster PCIe 2.0 x4 flash storage. Instead of internal expansion, the system provides extensive high speed ports for external connectivity options.

The Mac Pro “Twelve Core” 2.7 (Late 2013) is powered by a single 2.7 GHz Twelve Core 22-nm Xeon E5-2697v2 processor with a dedicated 256k of level 2 cache for each core and 30 MB of level 3 “Smart Cache.” If otherwise equipped as the default models, this configuration has 32 GB of 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM, a 256 GB SSD, and dual AMD FirePro D700 graphics processors with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory each, respectively.

Connectivity includes six Thunderbolt 2 ports, one HDMI 1.4 UltraHD port, 4 USB 3.0 ports, and Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports in addition to 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0. It supports as many as three 4K displays or six Thunderbolt displays.