The basic render used up 4 - 8 threads, while the effects ensured the compute GPU had some work to do. I was rendering a 20 minute 4K project with two effects applied across the entire timeline. I ran FurMark under OS X in parallel with a relatively heavy 4K render in Final Cut Pro. It's not until you run a prolonged workload that you can hear an increase in noise from the Mac Pro.
The Pegasus sits four feet away from my Mac Pro and at idle the hum of its drives drowns out the idle fan noise of the Mac.Įven running heavily threaded CPU benchmarks does nothing to impact fan speed.
I have a Promise Pegasus R6 Thunderbolt chassis with four 3.5” 7200 RPM hard drives inside. At this speed the Mac Pro is virtually silent. The vast majority of the time the Mac Pro’s single fan spins at a paltry 769 RPM.
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From the moment the system was introduced however I was curious to see if its thermal design could deal with all three processors going full tilt. By having all three players share one large heatsink Apple can optimize for the most likely usage scenarios where at most one processor is running at close to max TDP. The Mac Pro’s thermal core makes a lot of sense from an area efficiency standpoint as the chances that you have all three processors in the system (Xeon CPU + dual AMD FirePro GPUs) running at max speed at the same time is highly unlikely.
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