My mac got delivered, booted up and ran for about 45 seconds until it kernel panicked. I'd read this on other forums and ignored it, which was a mistake. Can't really say if you should wait or not, but if you get the iMac, I would suggest the following: I've had the new 5k iMac for about a month now. Will the iMac be sufficient or is it worth waiting? I'm not in dire need of a new machine right this second, but was hoping to have one within a month or so.
sometimes gaming, just not very fun on my less than capable Macbook, and I'm hoping a new iMac or Mac Pro (with Windows dual booting) will encourage me to do more of it. This is my main concern, as I sometimes have over 100 tracks at a time running lots of plugins. LOTS of audio recording in Logic Pro X. some video editing (second shooter for a wedding videographer and I help edit occasionally) What I do on a normal basis at my home computer: So my question is, do I wait a few more months in hopes for a Mac Pro refresh, or buy this same 5K iMac for myself? The new magic mouse and keyboard are very nice. We use mostly Adobe products on this machine and I know they aren't exactly optimized for this hardware, but it's worked well so far. I have a heavily upgraded 2012 Macbook Pro and have been using it hooked up to a monitor when I'm working at my desk, however, I'm ready to have a desktop that's always there.Īt my work, we just purchased the new Retina 5K iMac fully upgraded that I get to use every day: Meanwhile, at least one person on eGPU.io reported having a GTX 1080 Ti running in the AKiTiO Node connected to an iMac Pro.So I'm in the market for a desktop. Word on the street is that the next rev of High Sierra may include support for eGPUs. We tried two different eGPU boxes with an RX Vega 64 connected to the iMac Pro with no success. And if we had not jury-rigged an RX Vega 64 in the 2010 Mac Pro tower, it would have won 3 out of the 4 GPU contests. As you can see from the results above, it beat both beefy Mac Pros in CPU performance. (HIGHER Score = FASTER)Īpple did its homework when planning the iMac Pro. Though the 2013 Mac Pro has two D700s, Geekbench only uses one to run this test. Measures the compute performance of your GPU from image processing to computer vision to number crunching, Geekbench 4 tests your GPU using relevant and complex challenges. In the case of the 2013 Mac Pro, we used both FirePro D700s since that's the way it was designed to work. This two minute OpenCL Benchmark uses the selected GPU to render the LuxBall Scene. GPU Processing mode was set to OpenCL for all GPUs. Using the Candle project, we measured how fast it could playback the 117 frame video clip while applying one node of noise reduction. IMac 5K Pro580 - AMD Radeon Pro 580 (8GB) inside the 2017 iMac 5K 4.2GHz Quad Core i7 (7700K). NMP 8c D700s - AMD FirePro D700s (6GB each) GPUs installed in the 2013 Mac Pro 3.0GHz 8-Core Xeon E5-1680 v2 CPU TB2 port connected to the LG UltraFine 5K displayĬMP 12c Vega64 - AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (8GB) GPU installed in 2010 Mac Pro 3.33GHz 12-Core Xeon X5680 with DisplayPort of GPU connected to a Dell 5K display. IMac Pro 8c Vega64 - AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 (16GB) GPU inside the 2017 iMac Pro 3.2GHz 8-Core Xeon W-2140B CPU IMac Pro 10c Vega64 - AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 (16GB) GPU inside the 2017 iMac Pro 3.0GHz 10-Core Xeon W-2150B CPU