
The Classic Mac Pro is surprisingly powerful even today: 5,1 (almost maxed out) vs M4 Max
Comparing my M4 MacBook Pro, with a M4 max 16 cores 36 gb, vs a 5,1 with 2 Intel Xeon x5690, a rx 5700 xt, SATA ssd (not nvme yet) 64gb.
I am quite impressed by those results, even though the Mac Pro got destroyed on the benchmarks, It got surprisingly close on a few tests, and even beaten the MacBook on twinmotion, and in many games its quite close, it lost when frame generation is on because my gpu probably doesn't support it.
Considering that one if from just about 2 years ago and the other is a almost 17 year old computer, and that one costed 3500usd and the other can bought and upgraded by less than 1000 usd, this shows that the Mac Pro is not dead yet.