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by JimmaDaRustla 4626 days ago
The guy is using 4GB GPUs when comparing to the Pro's 2GB. Stating the obvious, but price is a big extrapolation of multiple apples to oranges comparisons.

I'd like to see this replicated based on benchmarks when the Pro gets here, and compare it to a real Hackintosh.
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kayoone 4626 days ago
If you are just looking for numbers, you can spec a pc for a much lower price to match those numbers. Just use a consumer CPU, non-ECC Ram and a Radeon GPU and you will probably match the processing power for half the price. Imo that comparison doesnt make alot of sense though, its apples vs oranges.
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JimmaDaRustla 4626 days ago
Exactly. If anything, this kind of favors the Pro pricing.

Apples to oranges...it's more like apples to mailboxes.

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dylanreeve 4626 days ago
The whole post was really just a mental exercise. Clearly it's not possible to build something that matches the Mac Pro exactly - even if you could perfectly match all the advertised specs, the Mac is on a custom board, with customised hardware and included hardware-specific OS optimizations.

Those GPUs specifically were chosen because they seem the closest match - while there is apparently a 2GB version of the card, it doesn't seem to be widely available.

I'm sure someone with a lot more disposable income than me will see what it takes to out benchmark the new Mac Pro when it ships. My guess is it will be quite a bit cheaper (around $2k) and i7-based.

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