We often test a computer's real-world capabilities with a web-browsing test, opening several browser tabs to graphic-heavy sites, streaming music and video, and more. That shatters the previous top performance records held by the 2017 iMac (710 MBps) or the Microsoft Surface Studio (848 MBps). Other premium systems, like the Dell (15,749 with an Intel Core i7-7700) and the Microsoft Surface Studio (13,197 Intel Core i7-6820HQ), all fell behind.įile-transfer speeds were blisteringly fast, as the iMac Pro duplicated a 4.97GB folder of media files in 2 seconds, for a transfer rate of 2,544 MBps. To put that number in perspective, the consumer level iMac was already a top performer, scoring 19,588 points thanks to its Intel Core i7-7700K processor. The iMac Pro put even top performers to shame in performance tests like Geekbench 4, where it scored 36,705 points. The iMac Pro put even top performers to shame. Accompanying this processing muscle is equally impressive hardware: 128GB of memory, a Radeon Pro Vega 64 with 16GB of high-bandwidth memory and 2TB of SSD storage. Our test unit of the iMac Pro was a midrange model, outfitted with a 10-core Intel Xeon W-2150B, capable of handling up to 20 processing threads at a time. Apple's USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter will output 4K video, but only at 30Hz. Same goes for using non-Thunderbolt monitors, so be prepared to pick up an additional $69 AV adapter in order to use your pricey new computer with anything using standard video connections. Our own video team, which used the iMac Pro in their daily workflow for several weeks, found that limitation particularly irritating, given that the system can drive multiple monitors but needs a handful of adapters to connect to anything that uses HDMI. If you want to work with video, and then see that video on an actual TV, you'll need a separate adapter. But video pros might notice a glaring omission from the list of built-in connections: HDMI.

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