Apple's new Mac Pro goes on sale tomorrow Designed around a 'thermal core' that pulls air from the bottom to the top of the machine, the new Mac Pro features 4-core, 6-core, 8-core or 12-core Intel Xeon processors running at speeds of up to 3.9 GHz, and two workstation-class AMD FirePro graphics processors that deliver up to eight times the graphics performance of the previous generation Mac Pro. "The new Mac Pro is our vision for the future of the pro desktop, everything about it has been reimagined and there has never been anything like it," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, at the launch in October. The new Mac Pro packs up to 12-core Xeon CPUs, dual FirePro GPUs, ultra-fast ECC memory, new PCIe flash storage, Thunderbolt 2 expandability and more into a radical new design that is one-eighth the size of the previous generation Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is available with a 3.7 GHz quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor and dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs with 2GB of RAM, 12GB of memory, and 256GB of storage starting at £2,499. Another version with a 3.5 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon E5 processor, dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs with 3GB of RAM each, 16GB of memory, and 256GB of storage starts at £3,299. Configure-to-order options include faster 8-core or 12-core Intel Xeon E5 processors, AMD FirePro D700 GPUs with 6GB of RAM, up to 64GB of memory, and up to 1TB of PCIe-based flash storage.