Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iMac Pro vs $6000 Custom PC”.
What’S up everyone how’s it going. This is waj hope you guys are all doing well and in this article we’re going to be talking about probably one of the most expensive pieces of pc hardware or slash tech product that i have ever come across and that’s the new imac pro now we’ve been Doing some testing for the past couple of months since it’s been available and we’ve been kind of taking our time with it, one of the things that i was really interested in doing is actually doing a pc direct head tag. Comparison, if you remember a while back, we did a seven to six thousand dollar pc build with a 38 inch ultra widescreen display paired with a custom built pc that cost roughly about forty five hundred dollars. Now the imac itself uh the base model that we’re testing out is just the base model which costs around uh just under the five thousand dollar market. Obviously has that awesome 5k display that we know with some of the 5k imacs, but internally, it’s quite interesting.
So what we’re going to do is do a headset comparison. Do some benchmark runs and just see what the value is that you’re getting from apple compared to what you’re going to get with a custom built system that you’re going to pick your individual parts with? So, if you’re interested in this comparison without any further ado, let’s get right into it now. Firstly, let’s talk about the displays on both of these two systems, and now the imac pro comes with a native resolution of 5120 by 2880. It’S a 5k native resolution display, which is absolutely insane.
It’S super bright and contrasty as well, and it has a total rating of about 500 cdm squared versus on the pc side. We’Re using the lg 38 uc 99w, which is a 38 inch 21×9 curved display, has a native resolution of 3840 by 1600. It’S not as bright as the imac display rated at 300 cdm squared, but from every other standpoint. Besides the overall contrast, ratio and overall quality that you get with the imac pro display, i personally like using the uh ultra wide screen.
Lg monitor it gives me a more immersive feel and with the larger overall size and relatively high resolution. I can definitely get a lot out of this kind of setup. I don’t have to use multiple monitors. No real scaling is necessary because it’s kind of nicely scaled with the overall size and it’s nice to have a 27 inch 5k display. But you can only really use so much of that resolution uh, since it’s designed in more of a retina kind of style where your dpi scaling kind of takes over and although your text definitely looks a lot more crisp and sharper overall, i would still at the End of the day, rather have a larger overall workspace, so i can do more work and it definitely feels a little bit more useful. Coming from my perspective, in addition to that, gaming on the lg 38-inch monitor is probably one of the coolest experiences ever.
It’S awesome. Gaming on a ultra curved widescreen display definitely feels a lot more immersive than the 27 inch imac now internally. This is where things get kind of interesting. Now we are testing out the base model unit of the imac pro, which is a rated at just under five thousand dollars, and it has a uh xenon intel processor, it’s a w2140b chip. It has eight cores 16 threads, we’re at 3.2, gigahertz and turbo up to 4.2 gigahertz and on the pc side, we’re using actually an amd thread. Ripper cpu is one of the faster ones: 1950x.
It has 16 total cores with 32 threads and it can turbo actually up to 4.2 gigahertz from a factory setting. You can also overclock it if you so desire with upgraded cooling and in terms of the cache memory we actually have double on the imac pro side of 40 megabytes opposed to 19 megabytes now in terms of ram, i’m just using 32 gigabytes of ddr4 on the Custom built pc – i am going to upgrade uh later on and we have pretty much the same amount on the imac pro in terms of graphics cards, the imac pro the version that we have comes with the vega 56 gpu and our pc side. Uh has two gtx 1080 ti’s in sli configuration so in pretty much every standpoint from a gaming perspective, video editing, uh, you’re gon na be definitely faster uh with those two higher end nvidia cards than a single vega, 56. Obviously, most people will probably upgrade the gpu on the imac pro if they want to do some serious video photo and 3d rendering uh. But again, this is kind of what we can afford right now now keep in mind that our custom built pc from a hardware perspective only for the tower itself cost under 4 300. So we’re relatively competitively priced compared to what we’re getting on the imac pro side.
Now, in terms of the storage configuration, one of the things that apple is really good at is making some really fast, ssds and integrating them well into their operating system, and this is certainly no exception. We have a pci express based ssd that has a maximum write performance of three gigabytes: a second and read performance of 2.4 gigabytes, a second now on the pc, i’m just using a m.2 a drive, and although it’s not the fastest performing ssd that you can get, It’S still not too bad we’re getting a read performance about 1.5 gigabytes, a second and right of just under 660 megabytes, a second so continuing forward. Let’S actually take a look at some benchmark results, specifically, let’s start with the cpu using geekbench. Now, on the imac pro side from a single threaded performance standpoint, you’re getting uh over 5100 points compared to 4 500 points on our 1950x and from a multiple core standpoint, we’re getting about 33 000 points on our 1950x versus about 31 000 points on our imac Pro now one benchmark results that really illustrates the difference between these two processors. Pretty well is the cinebench results, so we’re getting about 29 87 points on our 1950x and we’re getting about 1689 points on our imac pro with the eight core processor. So we’re almost getting double the performance with a double the cores now sometimes benchmark results seem a little bit more arbitrary.
Let’S actually bring things back into the real world, something that i do on a frequent basis to do a lot of 4k video editing using premiere pro. So an 8 minute 4k file took about two minutes 18 seconds to finish, exporting on our imac pro using premiere pro and using the same overall version. It took about one minute 41 seconds on our custom built pc, uh gpu, rendering was both enabled in both platforms. So that’s a pretty nice little difference there and using after effects again rendering out a 4k motion graphic file.
It took about 38 seconds to finish out on the imac pro versus about 33 seconds, so not a huge difference, but still something that you can clearly illustrate on a graph like this now. Besides that guys, that’s really it. Hopefully, you found this video to be interesting. Let me know what you guys: think of the comparison down below give us a thumbs up.
If you like this video and if you are specifically interested in how the standard 5k imac compares against the pro version, we have another video for you. So click on the card or in the description down below for that video when it becomes available, but i’m done. Thank you so much for watching. Thanks for your support and we’ll see you next time take care. .