Should I upgrade my Mac Pro (2023)?
3 years old · Runs macOS 27 Golden Gate, the current macOS
Quick look
- Price
- £7,1992launch price
- Chip
- M2 Ultrachip
- CPU
- 24-coreCPU
- GPU
- 60-coreGPU
- Memory
- 64GBunified memory, base
- Storage
- 1TBstorage, base
- Released
- 13 June 20232ReleasedIn Apple Stores; orderable online from 5 June 2023.
- Security updates
- Not available3Security updates
Each figure is from the source marked1 unless it carries its own number.
Software support
- Security updates
- Not available3
- macOS
- macOS 27 Golden Gate, the current macOS
No newer Mac with a store price we hold
We hold no Apple UK store price for any Mac in the Mac Pro line, so this page names no newer Mac to set the Mac Pro (2023) against. That is a gap in what we hold, not a statement about what Apple sells.
Specifications
Body
- Dimensions
- 529 x 218 x 450 mm
- Weight
- 16.86 kg
- Colours
- Silver
- Ports
- Eight Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) ports, two USB-A ports (up to 5Gb/s), two HDMI ports, two 10Gb Ethernet ports, 3.5mm headphone jack
- Thunderbolt ports
- 8
- Thunderbolt version
- Thunderbolt 4
- USB-A ports
- 2
- HDMI
- Two HDMI ports
- SD card slot
- No SD card slot.4
- Headphone jack
- Yes
- Keyboard
- Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad
- Touch ID
- Yes
Chip and memory
- Chip
- Apple M2 Ultra chip
- Apple silicon
- Yes
- CPU cores
- 24
- Performance cores
- 16
- Efficiency cores
- 8
- GPU cores
- 60
- Neural Engine cores
- 32
- Chip options
- M2 Ultra with 24-core CPU and 60-core GPU or 76-core GPU
- Memory (base)
- 64GB
- Memory (maximum)
- 192GB
- Memory options
- 64GB, 128GB or 192GB
- Memory bandwidth
- 800 GB/s
- Storage (base)
- 1TB
- Storage (maximum)
- 8TB
- Storage options
- 1TB, 2TB, 4TB or 8TB
- Storage upgradeable by user
- Yes, as Apple documents5
- Media engine
- Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes and ProRes RAWtwo video decode enginesfour video encode enginesfour ProRes encode and decode engines
Battery and power
- Maximum continuous power
- 1,280 W
Connectivity
- Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax)
- Bluetooth
- 5.3
- Ethernet
- Two 10Gb Ethernet ports (Nbase-T Ethernet with support for 1Gb, 2.5Gb, 5Gb and 10Gb Ethernet using RJ-45 connector)
- External displays (base)
- 8
Camera and audio
- Speakers
- Built-in speaker6
Platform
A desktop Mac has no built-in display, battery or camera, so those rows do not apply.
Trade-in and used prices
No used or trade-in figures for the Mac Pro (2023): we have not matched it to a CeX listing we can confirm is this exact Mac, and we would rather show nothing than a near miss.
More
Sources
Apple Support (UK) — Mac Pro (2023) - Tech Specs ·
↩Apple Newsroom (UK) — Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple silicon to Mac Pro ·
↩Apple publishes no date for the end of updates, and this site does not guess one.
↩No SD card slot.
↩Apple Support (UK) — Install or replace SSD modules in your Mac Pro (2023) ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — Mac Pro (2023) - Tech Specs ·
↩Apple Newsroom (UK) — Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple silicon to Mac Pro ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — macOS 27 Golden Gate is compatible with these computers ·
↩Apple Support (UK) — Identify your Mac Pro model ·
↩Geekbench Browser (Primate Labs) ·
↩Apple’s macOS 27 Golden Gate compatibility list names this Mac. endoflife.date says Apple usually provides security updates for the latest three macOS releases, but that this isn’t consistently applied; Apple publishes no end date.
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Not published by Apple
Mac Pro (2023). Apple doesn’t publish for this Mac: memory upgradeable by user, microphones, part numbers. Geekbench 7 Metal: the Mac chart has no Metal score for this Mac (chart read 10 Oct 2026). Pages checked: Apple Support (UK) — Mac Pro (2023) - Tech Specs; Apple Newsroom (UK) — Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple silicon to Mac Pro; Apple Support (UK) — Identify your Mac Pro model; Apple Support (UK) — Install and replace parts in your Mac Pro (2023), read 9 Oct 2026.
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