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27" iMac late 2015 i5 3.3 & AMD m395 benchmarks
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I think this should go to a separate thread. Otherwise the post by @fruitpunch.ben will drown and no one can find it. You will also get more readers... 
That would be @robert.moss and @SBruv that I know of.
K. I'm off to bed. Almost complete results for Cinebench, just missing M380. But as you can see some results are strange (higher card has lower results). I guess still too many variables... Perhaps the answer is then that the cards are pretty similar and not worth the upgrade...
I think this should go to a separate thread. Otherwise the post by @fruitpunch.ben will drown and no one can find it. You will also get more readers...
I'll start a new thread with my post as the first. that way it can't get buried.
EDIT: Done
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The i5 vs i7 is clouding the results. My completely bullcrap benchracer opinion is that for gaming get the highest video chip you can as the skylake i5 is plenty powerful enough and the i7 just adds more heat (theoretically) causing the graphics chip to throttle.
If you are doing processing heavy (video/audio encoding, photoshop filtering) the extra threading and cache of the i7 matters more and spending $200+ on video ram is likely a waste. At least that will probably be my justification to BTO an i5 w/ a m395x at some point.
Sorry just returned my 2015 iMac as there was so little improvement over my 2014
Yep. That's my thought at this stage too. But we'll see what the benchmarks turn up. It needs to be significantly better to be worth the +$300...
I think you did the right thing. Hopefully your able to provide Apple with feedback and they take your (and our) dissatisfaction with their $2,000+ "computer" into consideration with future models.
Can you provide feedback to Apple regarding your return?
Since they never added Thunderbolt 3 to these iMacs, even though they should have been able to, since they are Skylake, the only real improvement is better colour spectrum. The speed improvements (processing and graphics) are quite negligible
My response to that is another guess: The entire line of Macs from lowest end laptop to mac mini, to iMacs, to pro laptops, to mac pro will all get thunderbolt 3 and have a chip to drive a new retina external display.
Makes waiting around with my crappy-for-games 2012 iMac a lack-luster holdover.
EDIT: I meant to say 2012 Mac Mini. Apologies for the confusion.
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Can someone please definitely confirm that there not heat/noise issues like with m295x anymore? Preferably if you tested this in (bootcamp) games for a longer time.
Because that's the real deal maker or breaker for me. Even if the performance is the same as last year's. Thanks!
Because that's the real deal maker or breaker for me. Even if the performance is the same as last year's. Thanks!
Haha. If you think your 2012 is crappy... ( my iMac's in my sig).
Plus some of these benchmarks seem to show that because the retinas have to drive so many more pixels, frame rates are actually comparable with your 2012 no?
Thanks. M395 seems to be very much like m290x, which had no issues. Anyone with m395x?
Tesselation is the complexity of the real time 3D model. The higher the factor is applied, the more triangles the models use.
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Hey guys, I have the fancy late 2015 i7 4.0ghz m395x system with a 512gig ssd. Have bootcamp installed and windows 10. For some reason wifi isn't working in windows but is there anything you want me to run? Just let me know and I'll help. Thanks!
One thing I will say is as a professional photographer I use lightroom quite heavily. My old imac used to get hot when exporting 500 images from cr2 to jpg and this new one is silent the entire time and doesn't heat up at all. Looked on youtube and others have confirmed that the days of thermal throttling are pretty much done, between a ssd and the skylake processor this thing stays quite cool even under heavy use.
One thing I will say is as a professional photographer I use lightroom quite heavily. My old imac used to get hot when exporting 500 images from cr2 to jpg and this new one is silent the entire time and doesn't heat up at all. Looked on youtube and others have confirmed that the days of thermal throttling are pretty much done, between a ssd and the skylake processor this thing stays quite cool even under heavy use.
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Hey guys, I have the fancy late 2015 i7 4.0ghz m395x system with a 512gig ssd. Have bootcamp installed and windows 10. For some reason wifi isn't working in windows but is there anything you want me to run? Just let me know and I'll help. Thanks!
One thing I will say is as a professional photographer I use lightroom quite heavily. My old imac used to get hot when exporting 500 images from cr2 to jpg and this new one is silent the entire time and doesn't heat up at all. Looked on youtube and others have confirmed that the days of thermal throttling are pretty much done, between a ssd and the skylake processor this thing stays quite cool even under heavy use.
Not sure if there is an in depth 395 vs 395x yet?