![]() The iMac fan tends to kick in sooner under similar processing loads, perhaps because 4 CPU cores is all of them (full load), yet the 8-core Mac Pro is only half utilized when 4 cores are in use. Not so with the iMac which makes itself heard more often. Even so, your author has the 2013 Mac Pro on the desk (albeit further back than the display, which helps slightly, another advantage), and its fan noise is rarely noticed. Fan noise can be louder than a Mac Pro, because the iMac sits directly in front of the user whereas the Mac Pro can go under a desk. ![]() Some of these are subjective, some speculative, and some are hardware related. Sweetening the deal considerably, the iMac 5K SSD runs rings around the 2013 Mac Pro SSD (at least an early 2014 'build'), and the iMac 5K CPU (only 4 cores) stomps the fastest possible Mac Pro on Lloyd’s most important and time consuming real world task.įrosting on the cake is Thunderbolt networking, which means that the iMac 5K can be a high performance workstation able to read huge Photoshop files nearly as quickly as with a local fast SSD (Photoshop has some internal limits, so a gigabyte/sec is plenty fast). OWC 64GB Memory kit for late 2015 iMac 5KĪs noted in iMac 5K (Late 2015) with 64GB: the Key to Professional Usage, the late 2015 iMac 5K changes the game by accepting up to 64GB memory, which makes it viable for professional photographers like diglloyd, videographers, etc*.
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