Apple beefs up Intel Mac Pro performance with three pricey new GPU options
Macworld|October 2021
You can add the Radeon Pro W6800X, W6800X Duo, or W6900X to a new Mac Pro, but it’ll cost you.
JASON CROSS
Apple beefs up Intel Mac Pro performance with three pricey new GPU options

Apple and AMD have started offering new graphics options for the Mac Pro desktop, and there’s no shortage of power. The Radeon Pro W6800X, W6800X Duo, and W6900X are new workstation-class variants of AMD’s very popular consumer RDNA2 graphics cards, the Radeon 6800 and 6900XT. The X6800X Duo is unusual in that it puts two Radeon Pro 6800 GPUs on a single card. You can now select the cards—alone or in pairs—when configuring your Mac Pro (fave.co/3gLLB8N).

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