Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iMac Pro vs 5k imac ($5000 vs $1800)”.
Hey what’s up folks how’s it going. This is a watch hope you guys are all doing well and in this article, we’re gon na be taking a look at the new iMac pro and do a head-to-head comparison between the standard 5k iMac. Now, there’s a huge price difference. In fact, the pro version of the iMac cost more than double what the 5k iMac cost. So what we’re gon na do is actually take a look at the internal difference in terms of specification. Take a look at specific performance and benchmark results. Take a look at the external finishing of both kind of units and see what you’re really paying for on the pro side, besides the name, the space gray, finish and obviously in the internal specs.
So if you’re interested in perhaps getting an iMac for the first time, upgrading or just plain wondering why you would pay so much money for the pro, perhaps at this gon na enlighten you, so let’s get right into it and find out now. First thing: I want to mention that both iMacs are in the base line, configurations, we’re testing out the cheapest version of the iMac Pro which retails for just under five thousand dollars and the baseline configuration of the 5k 2017 iMac, which retails for under eighteen hundred dollars. So there’s a huge price difference, a funny enough when it comes to the overall bill, materials and design. Both computers are pretty much identical.
If you take a look at the back of the iMac pro, you will notice that there’s a large opening for better heat exhaust, since the components inside are going to be a little bit more heavy-duty and produce a little bit more heat. You’Re. Definitely gon na need at that larger opening and apart from the sleek looking Space Gray finish that you get both on the magic mouse keyboard and iMac. This is not a huge difference between the standard 5k and the Pearl from a cosmetic perspective. Obviously, one of the big highlights that I found when I first encountered the iMac back in 2015 is that the price was actually a fairly affordable, considering that you’re getting a 5k display built-in with a PC now, one thing that the iMac pro doesn’t have is an Affordable price tag and obviously the displays on both platforms, pretty much identical in terms of overall brightness, color accuracy and rendition and native resolution.
They both measure at fifty one twenty by twenty eight. Eighty. Now, of course, it’s on till you dive into the internal specifications where you start noticing the big differences.
The new iMac pearl are from the baseline. Configuration comes with a 8 core 16 thread, a CPU from Intel, that’s clocking around a 3.2 gigahertz and it could turbo up to 4.2 gigahertz. It has 19 megabytes of cache 32 gigs of DDR 4 memory. That’S in quad-channel configuration and has clocked a lot higher than the standard 5k iMac memory, which is around 8 gigabytes, and we have the upgraded Vega, 56 GPU and a blisteringly fast solid-state hard drive that SATA PCI Express configuration now the processor that we find on the 2017 baseline model of the 5k iMac is a core i5 7500 processor from Intel is a quad core trip without hyper threading clunking about 3.4 gigahertz at a control up to 3.8 gigahertz based on the cabbie Lake architecture. In terms of graphics, it’s using the radome pro 570 and a one terabyte fusion drive, which is certainly not as fast as I full-fledged SSD, which we’re going to take a look at in terms of the performance results in terms of connectivity. There’S a couple of changes. One you have a 10 Gigabit Ethernet connection on the iMac pro, as well as a 4 USB 3 connections as well as 4 Thunderbolt, 3 connection, / USB type-c. So a lot more connectivity when it comes to Thunderbolt 3 and us PC, and it is definitely nice to have that 10 Gigabit Ethernet, especially for a future-proof standpoint, now move forward.
Let’S get on to the good stuff and that’s the benchmark results. Let’S first talk about our favorite, a CPU benchmark results that everyone loves to use, which is Cinebench r15 on our a CPU, a test that we got a score about 1689 on the iMac pro using our 8 core 16 threaded xenon processor, that’s built inside and our Our core i5, which is just again a quad core with 4 threads in the operating system, got a score about 595, so certainly a huge difference in terms of CPU performance and our deep bench and results of mirror that very well in terms of the single-threaded performance. Both are, in the 5000 mark category, a little bit faster on the iMac Pro side in terms of single thread performance, but in terms of multi-core. Obviously, the iMac Pro blows the standard 5k out of the water getting over 31,000 points versus 14,000 points on a d5k.
I a Mac now in terms the graphics performance using unit ins at valley, benchmark at 1080p, alter detail settings pretty much everything at maximum we’re getting about. Fifty eight point: seven average frames per second on V on Mac Pro versus in the same scenario we’re getting about. Thirty eight point six average frames per second on the 5k iMac. Furthermore, as we mentioned before, there’s a huge difference in terms of at the read and write performance on both the SSD in the fusion drive and even though the fusion drive is not too bad. Getting a maximum of read and write, speed about 800 megabytes a second and about 1 gigabyte a second respectively versus. If you take a look at at the solid state performance on our iMac pearl or getting over 3 gigabytes. A second terms of write, performance and read performance is pretty good too at 2.4 gigabytes a second now. Lastly, since I Mac’s are very favorable amongst people who do a lot of creative endeavors like myself, I want to see what the render output times are like both in Final Cut X and After Effects, so run around a 4k six-minute file on Final Cut. It took about 55 seconds to complete on the iMac pro versus about a minute 50 seconds on the standard 5k iMac and when running around a 4k project on After Effects, it only took about 38 seconds to complete versus it took about one minute 35 seconds to Complete on the standard, a 5k iMac, so pretty big difference there for sure. But besides, and that guys, that’s really it now for most people, they’re, probably not going to get in the baseboa version of a V 5k iMac they’re, probably going to upgrade to the core i7 model, get more RAM a better overall graphics card.
And even with those upgrades, you’re still going to be half the price of typically what most people are going to spend on the iMac Pro. So, in a lot of cases, if you’re just kind of an average Pro soon do a little bit of video editing photo editing. I think, in that 99 % of cases, the standard kind of upgraded version of the 5k iMac will suit you. Just fine it’ll be good for a couple of years and I would probably not definitely not justify the price of what the 5k pro version of the iMac goes for, certainly in terms of displays very, very similar overall experience that you’re gon na get on both platforms. Now, certainly with the potential upgrades that you can do to the pro side of the iMac certainly is appealing for some people that have an unlimited amount of money to spend, but you’re going to find yourself down the road.
Most of these components are going to be out of date as technology moves very, very fast and you’re not going to be really be able to upgrade them as quickly and efficiency. As you are going to be doing on our traditional kind of custom-built PC platform. Side of things, so that’s something definitely to consider for those you guys are on a serious large budget, but in most cases I think most Apple users are just going to be fine with the standard version of the 5k iMac I’ll.
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