Apple acknowledged a couple of months ago that it had not transferred the advances in the professional market to the most powerful Macs in performance. These years he had focused on more optimized equipment, both in software and hardware. But his intention is to cut back on that lost time, with the release of the MacBook Pro, iMac Pro and Mac Pro. While the wait ends, today we have various equipment that performs the functions of one of the most powerful machines in the world , and sufficient for the vast majority of users. The boys of barefeats, have chosen different teams to check which of them is the fastest.
The following teams have participated in the test:
- Mac Pro 2013 - (Late 2013): 5 GHz 1680-core Intel Core Xeon E3-8 processor, 64 GB RAM.
- Mac Pro 2010 AMD - (Mid 2010): Xeon X5680 3,33 GHz 12-core processor, 96G RAM
- MacPro 2010 NV - (mid 2010): changes only the graph model compared to the previous version.
- iMac5K 2017 - (2017 ′ iMac 5K): Quad-Core i7 (7700K Kaby Lake) processor at 4.2GHz, 16G RAM.
- iMac5K 2015 - (Late 2015) 4 GHz processor, Quad-Core i7 (6700K Skylake) and 64G RAM.
The tests carried out have to do with various actions carried out with video editors, a task that uses a large amount of resources on our team. Specifically:
- Playing a project at 1080p in DaVinci Resolve.
- A render of Final Cut Pro X, applying a filter to a clip in 1080p.
- An export of an uncompressed file in FinalCutProX.
- A render in Premier Pro.
- An export in Premier Pro to 1080p.
- Apply a filter on Photoshop.
- An export in Light room.
Some of the conclusions that are reached in the study is the following.
- El 2013 Mac Pro is not out of date, as it might seem, compared to the iMac 5k of 2017, especially in export tasks.
- El iMac 5k, is the most versatile equipment. The Mac Pro works really well with Apple's own programs, but it slows down in some processes with programs not designed by Apple. Therefore, it depends on the software you use, you can opt for one team or another.
However, if you want to know all the details of the study, you can consult the article full of Bare Feats
