Mac Pro 2013 power rating

1000W? Sorry, this thread regards the 2013 Mac Pro. What are you referring to?

I've seen that teardown and that's why this is all very strange to me. And I can't seem to find some proper system-wide stress tests for this machine anywhere, with proper records of temperatures, performance and throttling (i.e. push the cpu to full load, and then see how it performs when the gpus are also in full load, etc).

Or even tests against a regular machine with the proper power and the same components (the cpu and the 7970/280x gpus, which do appear as d700s in mavericks)

I'd like to think this is a pro-grade workstation, so the

"in any typical use one would unlikely have the CPUs and the GPUs all maxed out at the same time."

statement is not something i was hoping to see here.

And those spikes you mention aren't going to happen because of throttling. I mean, even a high-end 620W psu, for example, only handles 700W spikes, and only for a short time. And this isn't a small form factor one like the one in the mac pro 2013.

That's not something I even worry about because throttling has everything under control here. Honestly, I knew this would happen the minute I read the announcement back in H1 2013.

Anyway, I've messaged someone who could get their hands on one of these and a system with the same specs and proper power+cooling, just to see exactly how much this machine throttles and if it's actually the case where a lower-spec mac pro has the same or similar power without throttling.

I've yet to come across some response from Apple regarding this issue.

And to avoid confusion for anyone who won't read further into that steam machine's power rating, that one fits well with the components it has. A single nvidia card that eats up ~250W max, and a ~80W standard quadcore, plus the rest of the system which isn't more than ~80-100W, and extra headroom, and I'm even being conservative with these numbers.

Almost off-topic, but here goes.

And AMD throttling? On that monstrosity of a card? Yes, that is exactly what happens when proper cooling isn't used (which isn't entirely the case with the mac pro, because it doesn't get hot enough because enough power isn't provided to the cards). The 290x throttles right at the danger temperature (94-95 celsius) and remains below it. And this happens with the reference blower cooler system, which is a joke. See reviews for the proper 290x cards that came out in december with bigger proper cooling. They even blow Titan/780Ti out of the water, especially taking price and performance into account, not to mention the better OpenCL performance.

It's nice how they only list the "CPU max". Doesn't really help, but it's a nice chart.

tonymacx86.com/graphics/115593-amd-radeon-hd-7970-shows-firepro-d700-10-9-maveri cks.html

amd.com/us/products/workstation/graphics/ati-firepro-3d/w9000/Pages/w9000.aspx#2

amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/7000/7970/Pages/radeon-7970.aspx#3

All of them, the same chip, basically. 280x, 7970, "D700" and the w9000. Same bandwidth, same shader count, etc. Thing is, the one in the mac is crippled by hardware design, so it's not even getting all of its power to begin with. I even see a power spec of 275W there.

And I can't find the D700, specifically, on the amd site, except for one press release. There is no spec sheet for it, but it is clearly a 28 nm Tahiti core released in 2012 as the 7970, and renamed as the 280x in 2013.

Some might argue that this isn't the same "card", but the core still is the same and it's clearly not able to get enough amps to run at full potential.