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So I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but unless you're doing 3D rendering, the regular iMac is going to be much faster at most tasks. Very few apps, outside of 3D apps, use any real sort of multicore support. This means that clock speed is going to affect you much more than numbers of cores. I checked the 18-core Xeon's on Intel's site and they click in at 2.7Ghz with turbo boost at 3.3Ghz. The Kanu Lake iMacs are going to come in at between 4.2Ghz and 4.5Ghz. That's a considerable clock difference. How do I know that there is such a drastic difference? Our studio teamed up with BareFeats to benchmark 2014/2015/2016 iMacs against all variations of the Mac Pro. We had contacted BareFeats after we had noticed that our iMacs were considerably faster than our Mac Pros rendering under After Effects. And the difference was dramatic. Between 1.3-1.4x faster than the new Mac Pro (12-core). Our Mac Pros had 48-64GB of RAM. While our iMacs had 32GB. We tested all machines with projects both locally as well as on our main server over 1Gb Ethernet connections. 

Render on the new Mac Pro 12-core took 7 hours. On our slowest iMac it completed the same render in just over four. 

Anyway, if you're a C4D, Maya, etc user... the iMac Pro will likely be a big boon. But if you're an After Effects, Davinci, Premiere, Illustrator, and Photoshop user.... the regular iMac will greatly outperform the iMac Pro. 

(Edited for typo on magnitude of performance increase and added length of times for renders of identical project)

My 2¢

I have zero idea why I'd want either one. 

kevin kee said:

Bookspyder said:

notoakie said:

i notice there's no door to upgrade RAM.

I saw that too. That's a deal-killer for me. I'll pass on this one.

I am not sure why you need more than 128GB EEC RAM. Unless you are running a thousand apps at the same time.

Media heavy apps such as After Effects can easily eat up 128GB. Also very complex 3D scenes with Ultra-high res texturing can chew up RAM very quickly. 

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