hey guys it's max we just got in the brand new 2020 imac
5k that we've been waiting for a long time
and before we open it i almost forgot i still have my mask on
this thing is super comfortable way more comfortable than my other masks
no exaggeration so if you guys want to stay safe and support mac stick at the
same time go and check it out along with our other
merch down below in the merch shelf let's go ahead and get this thing opened
up now in this video we're not only going to take a look at the thermal
performance and fan noise and compare it to the previous model but
we're also going to compare the performance to a version that cost
850 dollars more last year and missed some of the features
now before we do that let me show you how easy it is to upgrade the ram that's
the first thing i want to do because i saved 760 dollars ordering 64 gigs of
ram myself instead of buying it from apple
it only cost me 240 bucks instead of a thousand that is
absolutely crazy don't let apple rip you off now i'll
just line up the ram like that pop one in the next one
the third one and then the last one there we go that was how easy it is to
upgrade took me just a minute no it doesn't void
your warranty you could save up to 2 100 for 128 gigabytes of ram
we have links down below and we have links to our three-minute ram and slal
guide if you want more details and as you guys could see we have 64
gigs of ram running at the crack speed everything is working properly now the
imac that we have here is the 8 core model that is standard for the 2300 spec
with the 5500 xt and all in with the ram we're looking at about 2
500 and we're gonna compare it to what would have cost us last year for a model
with eight cores and the better graphics at about 3500
and then the previous base so we do have the higher end 10 core coming in with
the best graphics card but apple's only shipping those
end of next week so make sure you guys are subscribed if you want to see info
on that one and how these two will compare
let's jump into our tests we're going to start off with geekbench
5 i'm going to do the cpu test here and we're using intel power gadget to view
the frequencies that just hit 5.1 gigahertz right there
5.1 did you guys see that now it's at 5.0 so this
processor is eight core right there 5.1 again i don't know why
the wind is 5.0 it says it's supposed to go to 5.0 it's doing single core tasks
right now it's supposed to go up to 5 gigahertz
just like last year if you spent the extra 400 bucks to get
an 8 core processor now it is standard instead of being a 6 core
so it does hit the advertised frequency intel power gadget is showing actually
5.1 for some reason that's weird that's a positive and now this eight
core that's included it the base clock is actually 3.8
gigahertz compared to the previous ones 3.6 so that is also interesting along
with that last year if you paid 400 for the acor upgrade the highest we saw
that hit was 4.8 gigahertz not 5.0
or in this case 5.1 and as far as wattage we just hit
129 now 117. this is the multi-core test starting
um 129 watts so it is actually peaking higher than last year
i think was 117 last year 115 was the highest it went last year so it has
access to a little bit more power if it needs it
and here's our results the single core is a little bit faster than the best
processor last year which actually was the best single core
performing mac out of all of the macs and as far as the multi-core we're just
over seven percent faster this year and this acor is included
compared to paying four hundred dollars more for the i-98
core last year so that's definitely a good improvement
we'll still have to see how good the 10 core does and we'll test it out as soon
as we get it and as far as graphics goes i ran
the metal test in geekbench 5 and we got a result of
42 000 which is about the same as the previous 580x
which came on this specification they both have eight gigabytes of video
memory this memory is a little bit faster now
you have to keep an eye this doesn't tell the whole story we are going to
have a review with a lot of real world tests because
there are certain things have been greatly upgraded
such as the video encoders they are three to four times faster
in this new navi graphics chip h.265 decoding there's a lot that is going on
there because the 580x that architecture is from 2016
so that's much much older of course if you want a
lot more raw graphics performance you can spend the extra on the 5700 xt
which we recommend for a lot of people it's a lot more powerful
now let's take a look at gaming performance so i'm testing using unigine
heaven and i'm using the extreme preset and so far it looks to be running
fairly well and our temperatures for the graphics
it's at 66 degrees celsius fairly cool but we'll see what we get under the test
so it looks like we have a score of 64.2 frames per second our graphics ship
stayed at about 82 83 degrees celsius and the fans stayed
at their lowest speeds of basically 1200 rpm we got 11.98
that is about 40 faster than that 580x that was the base spec previously so
even though in the metal test it was very similar
like i said there's a lot of architecture updates and 40
faster for gaming and not only that but it's just
four frames per second shy than the vega 48
which cost 450 dollars to upgrade to so right there for gaming and
for cpu our cpu is faster gaming performance is
almost as fast while saving 850 dollars and now let's push this imac to its
limits with cinebench r20 we're gonna max out
all eight of those cores take a look at our fan speeds our temperatures
our frequencies all of that stuff let's go ahead and hit
run i'm going to watch the how much wattage it
ends up using here so bam we got a nice spike 153
oh geez okay well that's gonna cause it to heat up quickly but it's still doing
okay 156 okay i guess apple's being a lot
less conservative last time the highest it spiked was 120
and it's still staying at 159 there temps
are going up frequencies at 4.7 this whole time
that's under 8 cores of load so i don't know if they've just done a lot of
optimizations or what 98 degrees right here the fans
are spitting up but it's apple is pushing this thing hard we're
almost done here i'm going to run this test again because i wanted this thing
to heat up 48 46 was our score the first time let's
run that sucker again so we're almost done with the second run
here it's running at 4.4 gigahertz and the first run was 20 faster than
last year's i9 so we went down 46 98 went down a little bit more let's
keep pushing this thing so it looks like it's running
consistently at about 4.4 gigahertz instead of last year it ran at about 3.7
to 3.8 so the frequency is staying much higher and 46.70 we got on the
third run it is running a little bit hotter a
little bit louder because they're pushing it harder but the performance
difference is definitely noticeable and this year
the eight core standard you don't have to pay an extra
four hundred dollars for that one and then of course comparing this to the
previous six core that's a massive difference in
performance so what did we learn in our thermal and benchmark video well
as far as the actual cpu performance i'm really pleasantly surprised
not only is this actual new 8 core which is standard
about 20 faster slightly higher than 20 percent
than the i9 that you had to pay 400 for comparing the base spec it used to come
with the six core for the same price that is almost twice as fast as far as
the cpu performance and as far as the graphics we have much
much newer graphics finally an update to the ones that they stuck with
for a long time and for a gaming performance that had a
40 improvement and along with that the fans stay
totally silent when we're doing a gaming test so overall for the same
money you're getting a killer deal and now
for most people you can save probably about a thousand dollars compared to
last year and get similar or even better
performance so that's definitely a win in our book
now we are going to compare this 2300 model to the one that's a 10 core
with the 5700 xt and then do our full review as well with real world tests
along with video editing photo editing things like that so make sure you guys
are subscribed once again you guys can check out our
merch down in the merch shelf below this has been max and i'll see you in
the next video