iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: Real World Photoshop Performance

2015-11-21 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: 4K and 5K display, computer display, iMac, iMac 5K, Mac Pro, memory, Photoshop, SSD

Get the new iMac 5K at B&H Photo and see the MPG computer gear wishlist. MPG recommends this iMac 5K: 27" Retina 5K Display, 4.0 GHz Intel Core i7 (Skylake), 1TB Flash, 8GB memory, AMD Radeon R9 M395X GPU (4GB GDDR5) + 32GB or 64GB OWC memory.

Save money on 32GB or 64GB OWC memory (about $400 savings vs Apple!).

This test is as real world as it gets: it is your author’s most performed job, one that idles further activity while it runs*. The task is long-running, so it is the #1 bottleneck to your author’s photographic workflow, that is, preparing multi-resolution image series in a layered Photoshop document, typically aperture series or ISO series or similar.

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iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: Real World Photoshop Performance

Make multi-res output image series in Photoshop, iMac 5K vs 8-core 3.3 GHz Mac Pro