Apple iMac Pro: First Look at Performance

2018-01-07 - SEND FEEDBACK

Related: 2017 iMac Pro, Apple, Apple Core Rot, Apple macOS, Apple macOS High Sierra, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro, memory

Thank you for buying your 2017 iMac 5K and/or iMac Pro at B&H Photo, and for upgrading it at OWC MacSales.com. Both vendors made and make my extensive tests of the Apple iMac Pro and other Macs and gear possible.

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These first two pages establish certain baseline behaviors of the 2017 iMac Pro.

2017 iMac Pro: CPU Cores, Clock Speed, Turbo Boost

2017 iMac Pro: Scalability with CPU-Intensive, Memory-Intensive and Mixed Workload

2017 iMac Pro: Power Usage (Watts)

Much more is coming tonight and tomorrow including comparative real-world tests that might save you thousands of dollars, or thrill you with performance but empty your wallet.

Thank you for buying from OWC / MacSales.com which hosted me at OWC labs and made machines available for testing, and buying iMac Pro from B&H Photo, which loaned me an iMac Pro which is sitting on my desk for a few weeks. This project was a huge amount of work and is provided for all comers to read, so subscribing to my publications is much appreciated.

Relative performance for CPU-intensive moderate memory access workload on 2017 iMac Pro