Although a large majority of people think that the iMac Pro is a product presented in December and both the specialized press and the testers have expressed all its qualities, this is not entirely true.
The first units shipped correspond to the lowest performance units, if one can speak of low performance in an iMac Pro. These days users are getting orders for 18-core iMac Pro. Performance grows significantly by adding more cores, reaching scores of more than 50.000 points in the multiprocessor benchmark test.
After a long wait, heUsers who have ordered the 18-core iMac Pro should reach buyers later this month, as the deadline. We have seen the tests carried out by Jonathan Morrison with the newly released iMac Pro.
Logically, the more you squeeze the performance of this computer with programs that require large resources, the difference of this great computer compared to other Macs, comes out. In the performance test, se used the Final Cut Pro X and ScreenFlow 7 video editing applications, where it could be seen how the team's performance is spectacular. For example, exporting 8 minute 4k video to 5k Pro Res took as little as 51 minutes and 10 seconds. If we compare it to the 6-core iMac Pro, this action takes 34 minutes and XNUMX seconds. It is not a considerable time saver, but if it is a repetitive task, it can save us a lot of time.
Another comparison is the speed of SSD disks. In tests, the 4TB drive is somewhat faster relative to the smaller 1TB and 2TB versions.
Lastly, behavior for a single core is not significant. In this case, the speed of it, in this case 4.3Ghz Turbo Boost, of the 2.3Ghz processor, is what marks the performance, and results are similar to those of the 10-core version.
In short, the 18-core version is a perfect machine for those who have to squeeze the Mac, from a professional point of view. If not, the 10-core Mac is more than sufficient in all cases.