Originally Posted by edgeprod

Why is that bad? My last Mac Pro desktop was $4,200, and has lasted me since 2009. I'm only upgrading to stay current, all of my apps still run lightning quick with only dual Xeons (8 cores) and 12GB of RAM in this machine.

I'll be going for the $4,000 option and upgrading to the dual AMD FirePro D700. That's 12GB of VRAM total, 2048 stream processors, 384-bit-wide memory bus, 264GB/s memory bandwidth, and 3.5 teraflops performance.