The last one Apple Mac Pro they are made, more than ever, made for professionals, and among the hardware configuration options they can offer you up to 1.5 TB of RAM. But what should you do with such a memory? Given Google Chrome's reputation for using all the RAM available in the system, they were quick to test it. Can a Mac Pro with 1.5 TB RAM support for 6,000 Chrome tabs open?
If you have 43,699 euros left, you can configure an Apple Mac Pro with less than 1.5 TB of RAM distributed in 12 modules of 128 GB each (the price goes up "a bit" (7000 euros more) because these require at least one processor to be installed 24-core Xeon W and). Obviously the team size is designed for professional jobs with a lot of workload, but why not find your limit otherwise?
1.5 TB of RAM vs Google Chrome, who will win?
In experiments, they used Mac Pro supercharger which can be repaired (because, in fact, they do not provide a 24-core processor but 28 cores, and they have increased the 256 GB SSD to 8 TB and changed the RX 580 as standard for the Radeon Pro Vega II, increasing its price to -50,899 euros).
That said, they have opened 6pp Google Chrome tabs with standard web pages, like Apple's website for example. The result was amazing, because Google Chrome lived up to its reputation and kept consuming more than 1.45 TB of RAM on its own.
With everything and that, there was still memory available for other programs, but with 1.5 TB of RAM there was nothing available.
In fact, even though the author of the test claims that the Mac Pro continued to behave flawlessly and could do other things, after a few minutes some Chrome processes began to hang, and ended up having to manually shut down those processes and, eventually, forced to restart the computer.
Therefore, the decision that the dubious honor of being and The winner of this competition was Google Chrome, He managed to leave the rest of the portento with no memory available, such as a Mac Pro with 1.5 TB of RAM and one of the most powerful systems of the time, even to the point that he had to unlock it to make it work normally again.
