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dgman

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Oct 31, 2011
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I was searching on the internet to see how the new 27" iMac scored on Cinebench R15. I found several scores and youtube videos on the new Mac Pro and older iMacs. Nothing on the one I am contemplating buying. Would anyone have the latest iMac 27in to run a Cinebench score on. I am looking for one that has these selections (CPU ands GPU score):

3.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB GDDR5


I would appreciate knowing how this one did. I currently have a Mac Pro 2009 with a 4 core 2.93, ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB. This Mac scored:

Open GL 59.39
CPU 483 cb


I am trying to decide on the iMac as listed above, or the new Mac Pro. I don't use my mac for work, I use it as a hobby for Final Cut Pro X (I don't care for iMovie). I care about creating the best short films I can, love to learn as I go. But I don't care to wait 2 hours to render 10 min of 1080p video as I do on my current machine. I am also a photographer using Lightroom and Photoshop, as I have a passion for photography as well. (60% of my computer time Video/Photography and remaining 40% I game in bootcamp).
I already have the 30in Cinema display so I can go either way iMac or Mac Pro. I would like to keep my purchase around $5,500 or so.

I'd really like to know how much of an improvement the iMac would have over my current older Mac Pro.
 
my machine: late 2013 27" iMac I7 3.5, 32 gb ram, 780M video card, 1tb SSD

Cinebench R15 scores

OpenGL 87.17 fps

CPU 700 cb
 
Core i7-4771 @ 3.9GHz locked - GTX 780M - 32GB CL9 1600Mhz - PCIe SSD


Cinebench R15 64bit Windows 8.1 :

152.46 FPS
792 cb
 
Thanks zeropointzero for the scores, this will help.
IA64, how did you get 152 fps? Do you have 2 GTX 780M cards ?
 
He tested under Windows 8 with an overclock applied.

Actually it's not an overclock, I'm just pushing the CPU to remain in Turboboost mode using modded power configurations.

Here's also a thread how to tweak your SSD https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1699002/

One thing worth mentioning, Windows 8.1 performance is better than Mavericks in every aspect. Even running in TurboBoost won't give you that much of difference ( maybe 5-10 FPS but not twice as much )

Under Mavericks the FPS is locked to 60. Also the Nvidia Drivers for Windows are much more mature with plenty of configuration tweaks.

Cheers.
 
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