OWC 2013 Mac Pro CPU Upgrade Program

2014-03-17 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: 2013 Mac Pro, cpu, Mac Pro, Other World Computing

The OWC 2013 Mac Pro CPU upgrade program will go live the week of 24 March.

MPG has been running the 8-core 3.3 GHz CPU in the 2013 Mac Pro for about ten days now, an upgrade by OWC from the 4-core model.

MPG 3.3 GHz 8-core 2013 Mac Pro with D700 GPUs and 64GB memory

As the graph shows, the fastest CPU is the 8-core 3.3 GHz (green line), though the 6-core 3.7 GHz is about the same for most tasks (but falls two cores short and is not offered by Apple). The 6-core 3.5 GHz CPU is excellent, but just a notch slower than both of those two faster siblings—not enough to matter for most users, only those needing the last increment of speed. Discussion.

Turbo Boost Speeds with 2013 Mac Pro Intel Xeon CPUs