hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the 2019 iMac this is the
top-of-the-line spec as you can see here it's the iMac 27-inch 5k 3.6 gigahertz
eight core 64 gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabyte SSD with the Vega 48 graphics
card with eight gigabytes of RAM now let's unbox the new iMac
and we've got the standard keyboard of course you can change this up we've got
a Magic Mouse here and we do have some Apple stickers or documentation we'll
take a look at in a moment and you do get a lightning cable so you can charge
your devices now inside we have a little
documentation some Apple stickers and a microfiber cloth to wipe off the screen
we also have a power plug here there's our power plug or power adapter on the
back we have quite a few port stills so we still retain the headphone jack and
the SD card slot we have four USB to Thunderbolt three and an Ethernet jack
where the AC adapter goes there's a little button you push that and above
where the AC adapter is is a door pop the door open and it reveals four
different RAM slots so if you want to buy the RAM later on or upgrade it you
have that option now we'll remove the wrapper that covers the entire screen
you start from behind the display
we'll plug in the AC adapter plug it into the wall and then start up the iMac
it's on and there's no longer a sound from the Mac chime I don't know why they
removed it from all the Mac's but they did and I do miss it we're at the
welcome screen will click continue select our keyboard select our Wi-Fi
network and then we have to agree to the data in privacy then we can transfer
information from the Mac I'm not going to do that I'll set it up as new and
then put in my Apple ID once I've put that in I have to agree to the terms and
conditions and we'll move on to the next step and it sets up your iCloud so that
you can find it and find my Mac and things like that later on the next
screen has to do with setting it up I'll use Express setup and hit continue and
also I'll use files in iCloud I use that all the time and then we can choose a
light or dark theme I actually prefer the light theme when working on a Mac I
actually find it kind of depressing to use dark all day but choose whichever
one you want and hit continue and then it sets up the Mac and we get to our
desktop now that everything's set up I'll get everything installed that we
need to benchmark it and to use Final Cut Pro and we should be good at this
point I believe the Mac is up to date the way it ships but let's take a look
at that as well at the about screen you can see it has the latest version of Mac
OS Mojave at version ten point fourteen point four and again there's all the
specs 3.6 gigahertz Intel Core i 960 four gigs of ram and the Radian pro Vega
48 with eight gigabytes of RAM everything is now setup and I've waited
for the background activity to subside so that we could properly run the
benchmarks and not have anything going on in the background so the first thing
I thought we'd take a look at is Geekbench and Geekbench is a pretty
standard benchmark that will give us an idea of what's going on so let's run the
cpu benchmark and see what we get
the Geekbench has completed and as you can see the single core score is five
thousand nine hundred and ninety seven where multicore is thirty three thousand
seven hundred and sixty-five now let's move on to the metal benchmark and see
how that one goes so we'll run the compute benchmark the
metal benchmark completed and we have a score of one hundred forty six
thousand, five hundred and fourteen now the next thing we'll run is the OpenCL
benchmark so let's just switch it over here and then click run compute
benchmark the OpenCL benchmark completed and the scores one hundred and forty
seven thousand five hundred and forty seven now let's move on to Cinebench now
the first one we'll run is Cinebench released twenty or are twenty from the
app store and we'll see how the cpu does on this then we'll check out Cinebench
r15 Cinebench completed with a cpu score of three thousand nine hundred and
ninety six so that puts it just below AMD rise ins thread ripper sixteen core
which is pretty good now we'll move on to Cinebench r15 and that way we can run
the CPU and the opengl benchmark so let's go ahead and run the cpu benchmark
the cpu benchmark finished and you can see it's 1616 it's basically the same as
what we'd expect right next to another ninety nine hundred k cpu let's move on
to OpenGL
the OpenGL benchmark completed it has a score of one hundred and forty six point
five one frames per second which is quite good and should work well for
anyone doing work but let's see how it handles gaming performance so we'll use
the heaven benchmark and we'll put everything at Ultra and the highest
resolution we can and see what kind of framerate we get it's running pretty
smoothly so far there is a little bit of choppiness here and there and it's
actually running at about 36 to 37 frames per second which is ok it's not
phenomenal but if we take a look in the upper right corner as the benchmark
continues you'll see we now we're in the 40s for frames per second and then the
50s and depending which part it's at it can go up or down so now it's down in
the 30s again so it's running okay but not phenomenal for any high-end graphics
card now we'll try the valley benchmark with the exact same settings and we'll
see what it does now this is running at about 31 frames per second it goes up or
down depending again on which part of the benchmark test we're at but it looks
okay and most people aren't going to be gaming on their Mac anyway but I guess
you could if you wanted to now let's move over to the Final Cut Pro export
test will export 4k video and I'm going to use the exact same file I've used
before this is an iPad pro 10.5 review I did that's about 10 minutes long or so
and I export it an h.264 and we see how quickly it compresses so let's go ahead
and go to preferences I'll show you that rendering is turned off and then also
will dump out the generated media files so we'll get rid of all of those to make
sure that it's a fair test compared with the others so we'll get rid of all the
generated media files and then we'll move on to actually compressing the
video here so let's compress it in a master file and then once we select next
you'll see that we have h.264 in its fastest quality it's just how I ran in
the other benchmark tests as well so we'll do that we'll hit next and we'll
also start a timer at the same time so that we can get an accurate result so
let's go ahead and hit start and see what we get now let's click on status
here so we can see how quickly it's finishing and then also I installed I
snap menu that we can see the temperature at the
same time so this is a little application I like to use that monitors
CPU and GPU activity so you can see there's the CPU there and then the GPU
just spiked and this tells us the temperature as well so it's really
helpful just to see what's going on overall so let's see how quickly this
will compress everything
it's finished exporting and we have a time of 8 minutes and 22 seconds that's
better than real time whereas the total video was 9 minutes and 56 seconds so I
think that's the best I've ever seen and we didn't have any thermal throttling or
anything like that this chart shows the exact same test run on other Macs so we
have the 2018 Vega MacBook Pro 2018 Mac Mini and the 2017 MacBook Pro and you'll
see the 2019 iMac if you look in the upper right the export time was 8
minutes and 22 seconds the second closest one is 13 minutes and 23 seconds
and then the Mac Mini took 15 minutes and 28 seconds for the exact same
project I also find it much faster than the iMac Pro in my tests that I've done
in the past where this has quick sync built into the Intel chipset so it's
much faster at exporting h.264 video during the benchmark tests the fans did
spin up a little bit but not like older IMAX where they were really noisy it was
sort of just a light hum it wasn't loud at all and I would say the only thing
quieter at this point is the iMac Pro and the back of the iMac wasn't that
warm either except by the vents where it pushes out the air and while that's kind
of strange that it pushes directly into the arm or the hinge where it holds on
to the iMac it seemed to work okay and stayed cool the entire time that's it
for the 2019 iMac it had a pretty significant processor in GPU upgrade and
if I had one complaint I'd say that the bezels are kind of large I'm used to
using very thin bezel ultra wide monitors and some people like the bezels
because they're black and the work kind of fades into the background and you
really can't beat the display but the bezels are really my only complaint
nothing else at all so I'd say it's a very good value to pick up compared to
an iMac Pro for example and honestly I wouldn't buy an iMac Pro at this point I
would buy this configuration it's definitely the fastest I've used to
export video and it never slowed down while I was well you know what you think
about the Refresh iMac in the comments below is it something you'd pick up or
did you already pick one up also are you going to wait for a full redesign or is
this one good enough for you what do you think about those bezels is
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