r_mari

EPIC's CEO is an idiot.

The Metaverse will not exist without Apple's participation.
Apple will create the Metaverse that people want to use.
Only Apple can create the glasses that people will want to use to access the Metaverse.

Even Facebook has given up on the Metaverse.
They realize that they cannot do it alone without Apple's help.

This is a huge upgrade for iPhone X users from 2017.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max is intended for iPhone X, 11, and 12 users.
If you have an iPhone 14, wait until the iPhone 17 before upgrading.
Apple always incrementally upgrades.

The Mac Pro will support graphics cards. but the develooper will have to write drivers for them.
Apple won't be writing drivers for them as in the past.

Apple's Mac Pro could run GPUs on PCIe slots.
But someone - and it won't be Apple - has to write drivers to allow the GPUs to work with MacOS.
Who is going to do this work???  AMD?  nVidia?

Since the GPU is not on the Apple Silicon System-on-a-chip die, it will be generally slower than Apple's on-chip GPU.
But, at least you can run a GPU.  And if the GPU is a beast powerful enough, perhaps it can make up the speed difference compared to the Apple on-chip GPU.

In regard to RAM.  Apple could add a memory controller to run external RAM like a huge cache.
Obviously the bandwidth is going to be slower than using Apple's on-chip RAM.  It can never be used as working RAM
since it will be too slow.
But at least it is expandable --- perhaps to 2 TB of external RAM.
The Apple Silicon On-Chip RAM is the working RAM. It will fetch data from the external RAM/cache when necessary.
Apps can be preloaded, or offloaded when not being used to the external RAM.
Of course, one problem with 2TB of RAM is that you have to store 2TB of data from the RAM every time you turn the Mac to sleep or turn it off
so that the Mac Pro can wake up instantly. 

GPU PCIe cards will work. But someone has to write the drivers for them.  Apple won't.
The article stated the Mac Studio is what most pros should buy.
This validates the 2013 Trash Can Mac.  The Mac Studio essentially is the Trash Can Make incarnate.
The Trash Can Mac forced developers to use non-PCIe solutions via Thunderbolt.
So today, these solutions makes PCIe expansion less useful though still welcome in some fields.
So long as someone writes drivers, then slaves CPUs and GPUs can be used for number crunching on the Mac Pro,
which cannot be done on the Mac Studio.