Ok, so even though the resolution is double all the screen elements are scaled 2x.
Got it. I'll have to see one in person when they come out.
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Apple May Launch 27-Inch Retina iMac With AMD Graphics as Soon as Next Month
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Ok, so even though the resolution is double all the screen elements are scaled 2x.
Got it. I'll have to see one in person when they come out.
The Samsung is a 4K monitor with a TN panel.
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I think it's being done now by running it as two virtual panels. It's not a new technique, it used to be that 4k displays had to be run on two dual link cables.
I think it's getting closer. high DPI used to be prohibitive until Apple started doing it. But if this time, maybe only an option on the top model. Maybe next year.
I personally don't think this will happen. I suspect a new line of monitor for the MP before iMac gets such a substantial upgrade. Unless they want to create a new line of iMac that probably would double the cost. Maybe another year when the panel prices come down before this is considered and also give some time for the graphics to catch up.
AMD cards to match the nMP because they scream at openCL and that seems to be the direction that pro apps are going as far as gpu acceleration goes.
There needs to be at least 4GB of VRAM if you want that 5K screen to handle fluidly.
I'd love a 6-core iMac though. It probably won't happen till 2016-2017
There needs to be at least 4GB of VRAM if you want that 5K screen to handle fluidly.
I'd love a 6-core iMac though. It probably won't happen till 2016-2017
It will matter for gaming, the easy solution is to run games at 2560/1440 since its unlikely you will be able to do much with that computer in terms of games if you want to run at native resolution.
To be fair I don't really think there is a single GPU on the market today that can run games at reasonable frame rates at 5K.
I don't think anyone buys an iMac primarily for gaming but its definitely something they get used for a lot.
At some point in the 3rd or 4th generation of this product the GPU will catch up with the amount of pixels it needs to push and it will be fine, but for now compromises will have to be made.
That's not the case. You only believe that because of how Windows was coded to handle high resolution displays years ago. To explain it to you in layman's terms, an icon that is say a size like 200 x 100 pixels will remain 200 x 100 pixels on an older windows computer, no matter what the screen resolution is set at. That causes the icon to grow or shrink as the resolution is changed. On newer operating systems, including OSX, the icon will scale with changing resolution. So a 4k monitor would now display that icon as 400 x 200 pixels, and it would be the exact same size. It would be blurry relative to your non-upscaled content, but it would look exactly the same as it did before.
Would there be AAAAAAAAAANY chance of upgrading the displays in my 2012 or 2013 27" iMacs to one of these 5k displays?
No, sadly. That's why I prefer separate towers. You could buy a separate 5K display and rock the dual screen setup, though.
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You can, however, use DisplayMenu or something to switch it to 1:1 scaling mode if you want the ultimate desktop space.
but worse than the newly released Nvidia chips.
Apple will pick whichever chips are decent, but cheap enough for its needs. sadly.
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Yep, but Apple ought to at least an option of NVidia. AMD is at least a generation behind NVidia.
That was my first thought as well.
However... Adobe can use OpenCL in AMD video cards.
I'm not sure how it compares though.
I think he's talking about a Quad Core i7 with multithreading. 4 hardware cores and 4 virtual cores - they show up as 8 cores in Activity Monitor.
In this case, the OS effectively hides the true resolution from the app. If an app draws a character 1cm high & 1cm wide on screen, it will still be 1cm high & wide on the Retina iMac, but it will have twice as many pixels in that space on both the horizontal & vertical axes, so the jaggies will be much reduced and any pixel-smoothing techniques much more subtle.
I know that.
...maybe that user has an engineering imac sample with 8 cores and 16 threads though
I want this but not if they compromise on performance in order to be able to introduce it in October for the Yosemite release.
I don't mind not having Broadwell, honestly most dual core CPU's from intel are good enough for the vast majority of the stuff you need to do, quad core Haswell is more then enough.
Where i will not compromise is the GPU, if this thing does not have a 980M or by some miracle the new chips AMD was supposed to only release next year I am going to wait for 2.0
It's one thing to pay a premium for new technology and quite another to get a machine that does not have the power to run at it's native resolution.
I don't mind not having Broadwell, honestly most dual core CPU's from intel are good enough for the vast majority of the stuff you need to do, quad core Haswell is more then enough.
Where i will not compromise is the GPU, if this thing does not have a 980M or by some miracle the new chips AMD was supposed to only release next year I am going to wait for 2.0
It's one thing to pay a premium for new technology and quite another to get a machine that does not have the power to run at it's native resolution.
Not sure what the TN panel you're referencing is, but there's not a significant pixel difference between 4k and 5k. It's only approximately 46% more pixels, as opposed to a 300% increase in pixels from 1080p to 4k. There should not be a significant cost difference.
You could set it to some obscene resolution and make the UI tiny, if you really wanted to though.