If you wanted to do a deep dive into Apple’s top of the line hardware, it’s here.
Apple on Monday published two extremely thorough white papers detailing the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR hardware. These “Technology Overview” documents highlight the inner workings of both of Apple’s newest pro-grade pieces of hardware.
The documents, dated “February 2020,” offers details on architecture, the physical architecture, different configuration options, and more. It also includes detailed images and graphics with annotations.
In the Mac Pro Technology Overview, which is dated February 2020, Apple details everything you need to know about the tower machine. There are details on architecture, the physical enclosure, different configuration options, and much more. There are also detailed images and graphics with annotations.
Here’s what Apple has offered to describe the Afterburner graphics card found in the Mac Pro:
Afterburner was designed to enable camera native files to be used throughout the workflow without the need for proxies. It does this by offloading the decoding of all flavors of the ProRes video codec, including ProRes 422HQ, ProRes 4444, ProRes XQ, and ProRes RAW, with the exception of interleaved formats that are currently decoded strictly in software, and the final debayer of ProRes RAW images that are done on the GPU.
Apple also offered the following details about the nano-texture found on the Pro Display XDR:
A nano-texture version of the cover glass is also available for professionals who have to work in less controlled lighting environments and prefer a display with further reduced glare. The textured surface is produced via an etching process to create nanostructures on the glass. The result is an innovative matte finish that effectively scatters light reflections for less perceived glare, while minimizing impact to sharpness, color, and contrast.
If you’re curious, take a gander at the links below and please let us know what you think in the comments.
Via Apple (Mac Pro Technology Overview document) and Pro Display XDR document) and 9to5Mac