New iMac vs Mac Pro (late 2013)

[raythepa]

My workplace took back their Mac Pro (3.5 GHz 6 core Xeon E5, 64 GBs 1866 DDR 3 RAM, AMD FirePro D3000 2GBs) and wondering if the new iMacs released today (10th Gen Intel i5) would be a comparable replacement machine.

I'll upgrade the RAM (from OWC to maybe 32 GBs) but am wondering about processor and graphics card.

I would like to assume newer is better but don't know how suped up a late 2013 Mac Pro would hold up over time.

Thanks for your thoughts.

 

[CheesePuff]

In short: the storage, RAM, graphics and CPU will all perform better than the Mac Pro.

 

[CheesePuff]

Also for reference, the Mac Pro 6-core on GeenkBench 5 scores: 814 / 4600 for single and multi score. For the 2019 last generation iMac i5 is 1011 / 4849 however the 10th generation chips will score even better. But if you go for the i7 in the iMac, it supports Hyper Threading so your multicore performance will skyrocket.

edit: my apologies the 10th gen i5 also has Hyper Threading unlike before, so you will have much higher multicore on those too, unlike what was benchmarked above on the 2019 iMac i5.

 

[timerickson]

This new iMac will smoke the old Mac Pro. Even the Mac Mini (albeit no GPU), smokes the old Mac Pro in higher end configurations.