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iMac Pros With Custom Xeon Chips Possibly Appear on Geekbench Ahead of December Launch

RickInHouston said:
When would one use multiple cores all firing at the same time?

It's an honest question.
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3D rendering of images, for that more cores are better. Same goes for gpu cores. So for example, processing a rendering of an 3D image is twice as fast with double the cores.
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klerke said:
3D rendering of images, for that more cores are better. Same goes for gpu cores. So for example, processing a rendering of an 3D image is twice as fast with double the cores.
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In animation you just can’t get enough cores
 
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Avieshek said:
So, it's custom made to downclock? Interesting indeed.
Lmao
  • Downclocked Suffocated-Air-Cooled CPU
  • Second Classed GPU
They might win the numbers somehow but they are shipping a caged beast with the potential of a World War Hulk. That's sad.

Got great news. You can sell your kidney, eyes, blood, liver, bone-marrow, sperm..
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and over priced ram that you can't easily upgrade on your own (likely the same for the cpu say $500-$1000 markup! and unlike the mac pro it's not easy to change it)
 
So much want. :eek:

I do all my work on my 1st gen 5k iMac and I'd LOVE to upgrade to one of these. Holy cow.
 
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Nagy Dávid said:
Normal people who do not want to see pixels but you did not get the message.
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Actually, normal people don't rub their nose against their display but actually sit at a comfortable distance where you wouldn't notice a difference between 4K and 5K anyway - but still have more usable screen space.
 
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era86 said:
Actually, normal people don't rub their nose against their display but actually sit at a comfortable distance where you wouldn't notice a difference between 4K and 5K anyway - but still have more usable screen space.
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Your 4K monitor offers 42% the "usable screen space" of the iMac, so that's, uh, considerably less? Kind of?

(It also costs $1,700, which leaves you with $300 to put in a CPU, GPU, and, well, everything else, to build your machine and stand by the assertion that you can do it for $3k less than the iMac Pro. Good luck?)
 
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Allen_Wentz said:
Actually, many are. Many of us - especially folks in visual design fields - really, really like having aesthetically well-designed devices as part of our long workday. I would argue that having a visually pleasing Apple AIO on one's desk as compared to a crap Dell AIO helps one do better design.
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Ah... I understand.

Now what if I told you that it being a pretty machine actually hurts its performance? :p

I guess you need a healthy balance of "looks good" and "runs good"
 
Avieshek said:
So, it's custom made to downclock? Interesting indeed.
Lmao
  • Downclocked Suffocated-Air-Cooled CPU
  • Second Classed GPU
They might win the numbers somehow but they are shipping a caged beast with the potential of a World War Hulk. That's sad.

Got great news. You can sell your kidney, eyes, blood, liver, bone-marrow, sperm..
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And be too dead to use it
 
These numbers don’t really seem to justify the price do they? Is 20% better, multicore, than machines that cost way less!

There’s also something that I’m curious about. To have lots of cores you have to slow them down for thermal reasons. OK, if you’re doing something that parallelises well this is good, but what about when you’re not? You’re not going to buy a second machine just to run things that don’t parallelise, so you’ll just have to put up with running them slowly on a 3ghz core. So my question is - why don’t they have several “low performance” (not really but you know what I mean) cores for parallel things and a single high speed core, like in iPhones? Is this a limitation of x86, or just not something anybody’s tried, or something people have already done?
 
Michael Scrip said:
So... like a standard desktop computer? :p

This makes me wonder what the new Mac Pro will be. Let's hope they don't get all "clever" with crazy designs.

A workstation doesn't have to be pretty. It just needs to work. It literally has "work" in the name.

The people who spend that kind of money on a machine aren't buying a piece of art. :D
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Fact. The studio I work at would buy new Mac pros in a heartbeat (replacing our 2010-2012 models) if basically just released the cheese grater Mac Pro design with modern components. Literally, just give us the 2010 frame with the iMac Pro guts.
 
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Will be nice to try before taking the leap - Ive been debating about the toilet-roll-holder for a time now. Hard to see a real world application (outside of video transcoding) that would necessitate this power.. Its not like this is an oculus rift system right? lol
 
You can thank the VR industry for these much needed GPUs. Apple can no longer get away with selling "Pro" machines made for guys sitting at cafes pretending to be CEOs and soccer moms. Pretty soon all Macs may actually be legitimate "pro" machines capable of intensive ML processing and VR.

That price is ridiculous.
 
era86 said:
Actually, normal people don't rub their nose against their display but actually sit at a comfortable distance where you wouldn't notice a difference between 4K and 5K anyway - but still have more usable screen space.
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I have to agree with this. I love my 40" 4K monitor, and I can't see pixels from my normal viewing distance. (But I do admit my eyesight is not what it used to be :( ) The main reason I didn't replace my old Mac Pro with a 27" iMac was I couldn't bear the thought of a tiny 27" screen, and I couldn't fit one on my desk alongside the 40". (I don't need iMac Pro levels of performance either.)
 
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