{"id":348412,"date":"2017-06-22T00:09:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/21\/2017-27-inch-imac-benchmarks\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T00:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:09:30","slug":"new-27-inch-imac-has-up-to-80-faster-graphics-at-compute-tasks-compared-to-previous-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/new-27-inch-imac-has-up-to-80-faster-graphics-at-compute-tasks-compared-to-previous-model\/","title":{"rendered":"New 27-Inch iMac Has Up to 80% Faster Graphics at Compute Tasks Compared to Previous Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/05\/apple-refreshes-21-5-inch-and-27-inch-imacs-with-best-mac-displays-ever-and-improved-performance\/\">launched new iMac models<\/a> with Intel&#8217;s seventh-generation Kaby Lake processors and improved AMD Radeon Pro discrete graphics options at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2013\/09\/27inch5kimac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-570618\"\/><br \/>Early benchmark results for the new 27-inch iMac have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekbench.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/imac-27-inch-performance-june-2017\/\">already surfaced on Geekbench<\/a> that suggest the 2017 models are up to 15% faster in multi-core CPU performance compared to last-generation models.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s new high-end 27-inch iMac stock configuration with a 3.8GHz quad-core Core i5 processor has an average multi-core score of 14,886, for example, compared to 12,953 for the equivalent 2015 model.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/06\/27-inch-imac-multi-core-geekbench.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"900\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-572385\"\/><br \/>John Poole of Primate Labs, the creators of Geekbench, said the new 27-inch iMac also has up to 80% improved graphics performance compared to the equivalent 2015 models at compute tasks such as image processing.<\/p>\n<p>Geekbench&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/geekbench.com\/doc\/geekbench4-compute-workloads.pdf\">GPU Compute Benchmark<\/a> measures the performance of GPUs at performing compute tasks such as image processing, computer vision, and physics simulations, rather than rendering tasks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/06\/imac-27-inch-gpu-geekbench.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"845\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-572396\"\/><br \/>Poole said compute performance is becoming more important as more applications, such as Photoshop, take advantage of GPU compute.<\/p>\n<p>The built-to-order 27-inch iMac with a 4.2GHz quad-core Core i7 processor is Apple&#8217;s fastest Mac ever in single-core CPU performance, according to the Geekbench results, continuing a trend set with the late 2014 model. The 2013 Mac Pro remains Apple&#8217;s fastest Mac in multi-core CPU performance on Geekbench.<\/p>\n<p>That will undoubtedly change in December when Apple launches the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/imac-pro\/\">iMac Pro<\/a> with workstation-class tech specs, including up to an 18-core Intel Xeon processor, top-of-the-line Radeon Pro Vega graphics, up to 4TB of SSD storage, and up to 128GB of ECC RAM. iMac Pro will start at $4,999 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The new 27-inch iMac <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/buy-mac\/imac\/27-inch\">starts at $1,799<\/a>. New 21.5-inch models are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/shop\/buy-mac\/imac\/21.5-inch\">available from $1,099<\/a>. Prices vary by country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Apple launched new iMac models with Intel&#8217;s seventh-generation Kaby Lake processors and improved AMD Radeon Pro discrete graphics options at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Early benchmark results for the new 27-inch iMac have already surfaced on Geekbench that suggest the 2017 models are up to 15% faster in multi-core CPU performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":348413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-348412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}