Hey I'm Matt the video director here at TechnoBuffalo and I'm Mark I'm the
creative director and we make videos here at TechnoBuffalo for the past few
weeks we've been testing the 27-inch 5k iMac fully loaded and I've been testing
out the eight core iMac Pro so just like our previous flagship videos we're
going to split this verses video into three different categories we're gonna
check out the iMac's design the performance and the value and at the end
of the video we'll declare a winner and see whether the 5k iMac or the iMac Pro
is a better computer for a content creator so we just picked up the base model iMac
Pro a few weeks ago since we made the switch to Final Cut Pro X as our main
editing software however we're still using After Effects to create our
graphics because that's just what we're used to before we move into any
benchmarks and test though let's just talk design now we haven't really seen a
major design overhaul on any of the iMac since late 2012 when they remove the
optical drives and introduced the 21 and 27 inch iMacs so here we are in 2018
the iMac and Pro variant look exactly the same other than a space great color
and accessories it comes with out of the box it also comes with bigger vent in
the back and you'll also get two extra USB-C Thunderbolt 3 ports a faster 10
Gigabit Ethernet port and a 1080p FaceTime camera so up front the display
on both iMac are completely identical with the same 5120 by 2880 resolution
the same 500 nits of brightness as well as the same p3 color gamut for that
super accurate punchy colors now I personally love the screen on the new
iMacs it's really vibrant it's really bright and it's just perfect for
coloring in post one thing to note though before moving onto benchmarks
speakers are so much louder on the iMac Pro it's not the best speakers out there
but there's more bass its more full than the regular iMac and it sounds great out
of the box so let's move on to performance our 5k
iMac is the top-of-the-line 27-inch model it has a 4.2
gigahertz Intel Core i7 processor 40 gigabytes of RAM which we upgraded
ourselves something you can't really easily do with the iMac Pro it has the
Radeon Pro 580 graphics with a gigabytes of vram and 500 gigabytes of SSD storage
the iMac pro is the base model with the 3.2 gigahertz Intel Xeon W processor
with 8 cores has 32 gigabytes of RAM built in a one terabyte SSD and it's got
the Radeon pro vega 56 with 8 gigabytes of vram taking a
look at Geekbench we first see that the iMac Pro finished quicker at 1 min 10 seconds
with a single core score of 4372 and a multi-core score of 33719 the 5k
iMac finished just a couple minutes later with a single core score of
5675 and a multi-core score of 19,806 so quite a bit lower
moving on to Blackmagic speed test you can see the iMac pro blows the 5k iMac
out of the water with its three gigabyte write speed and two gigabytes reads speed
the 5k iMac on the other hand is just slightly behind the pro with a 1.8
gigabyte write speed and two gigabyte read speed now in Cinebench the 5k iMac
got an OpenGL score of 120 frames per second and a CPU score of 900 the iMac
pro got an OpenGL score of 118 frames per second but a CPU score of 1641 now
moving on to some more realistic tests we moved to Final Cut Pro 10 we
downloaded a six second 8k clip from RED and tried to add color correction and
effects to see how these two handled 8K video and it turns out the iMac pro
can playback 8k videos just fine where the 5k iMac has some trouble playing
back the files even after its rendered so we then duplicated this 8K
with its effects and colors into a 1-minute file and then exported it the
iMac Pro exported it in 11 minutes and 42 seconds while the 5k iMac took a decent
amount longer at 20 minutes and 45 seconds after our test finish we tried
playing back the exported 8K clip in QuickTime and both iMacs were unable to
playback video in real time which surprised us
moving on to After Effects we exported a 50 second clip that we made from scratch
with multiple elements and in 4k the iMac Pro finished exporting in 13
minutes and 50 seconds while the 5k iMac exported the same project in 15 minutes
and 11 seconds another thing to note with these tests is besides the time
difference there's also a noise difference with the fans in the time
we've been using the iMac Pro not once have we heard the fans kick on or if
they are on we can't hear them whereas with the 5k iMac it sounds like a
plane's about to take off so clearly the iMac pro is the more beefier system but
it's also more expensive but how much more is it the 5k iMac we bought with
the extra 32 gigabyte kit we installed ourselves costs roughly around 3050
dollars and our base model iMac Pro costs five thousand dollars so we're
looking at almost $2,000 price difference between the two systems
obviously the 5k iMac is the better bang for the buck but if you're looking for a
computer that will grow with you for the next three four or five years the iMac
Pro starts to look appealing sure for most of the tests we did the difference
may not seem worth the price difference but for the tests that are a bit more
forward-thinking like editing 8K large After Effects files the iMac Pro
handles these way better so if you're looking for a computer that will be able
to grow with you for the next few years the iMac Pro is the way to go especially
if you run a business or rely on a computer to make a living it's a larger
investment up front that can help you earn more in the long run as creative
professionals if you're in the market for a new computer to edit or create
videos for YouTube or whatever else you want to create the base model 8 core
iMac Pro is definitely worth the extra two thousand dollars and it's the clear
winner here that extra boost in performance will save you some time
rendering exporting and if you need even more power you can upgrade to a ten core
or even an 18 core computer for way more power than what we have here while on
the 5k iMac this is the best that you can get on pretty much every front you
can't go wrong with the iMac Pro anyways thank you guys so much for watching this
video let us know in the comments down below which one you would choose and if
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Mark Linsangan from TechnoBuffalo and I'm Matt Gonzales with TechnoBuffalo and we'll
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