Apple has finally released the long-rumoured 8-Core Mac Pro.

Apple describes the machine as;

Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world’s first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised.

The officially specification on the new systems are:

  • Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5300 series “Clovertown” processors
  • Intel Core microarchitecture
  • 8MB of L2 cache per processor (16MB total; each pair of cores shares 4MB)
  • 128-bit SSE3 vector engine
  • 64-bit data paths and registers
  • Energy efficiency optimization
  • 1.33GHz, 64-bit dual independent frontside buses