{"id":27561,"date":"2019-12-13T16:55:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27561"},"modified":"2019-12-13T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T21:55:07","slug":"pro-display-xdr-limited-to-5k-with-imac-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/pro-display-xdr-limited-to-5k-with-imac-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Display XDR Limited to 5K With iMac Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/12\/13\/pro-display-xdr-imac-pro-5k-resolution\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2019\/12\/13\/pro-display-xdr-imac-pro-5k-resolution\/\"><p>Thomas Grove Carter has since demonstrated that the iMac Pro can in fact drive the Pro Display XDR, but only at a 5K resolution. This is likely because the iMac Pro uses Intel&rsquo;s older &ldquo;Alpine Ridge&rdquo; Thunderbolt 3 controller without enough bandwidth to drive a 6K display.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>To use the Pro Display XDR at its full 6K resolution, the display must be connected to the new Mac Pro with MPX Module GPUs, a 2018 or later 15-inch MacBook Pro, a 16-inch MacBook Pro, or a 2019 iMac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes sense given that the iMac Pro&rsquo;s specs haven&rsquo;t been updated since it was announced in June 2017. Hopefully that will change soon.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/10\/mac-pro-available-to-order\/\">Mac Pro Available to Order<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: Thomas Grove Carter has since demonstrated that the iMac Pro can in fact drive the Pro Display XDR, but only at a 5K resolution. This is likely because the iMac Pro uses Intel&rsquo;s older &ldquo;Alpine Ridge&rdquo; Thunderbolt 3 controller without enough bandwidth to drive a 6K display.[&#8230;]To use the Pro Display XDR at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-13T21:55:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"00d174a9-98c1-441a-9461-41eac35ecdae","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-12-13T21:55:11Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AANF0qZjBRBqUYUHqw17Nrg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1297,1586,100,1811,201],"class_list":["post-27561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-imac","tag-imac-pro","tag-macbookpro","tag-pro-display-xdr","tag-thunderbolt"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27562,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561\/revisions\/27562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}