can't believe that's actually outperforming my 12
core mac pro we finally got our new 10 core imac in with the high-end 5700x
graphics seems like it's been forever of a weight
and today we're gonna see how this thing performs now let me be
honest i know this thing is going to be super powerful
looking at the 8 core that thing is already excellent but what i'm curious
about is how loud will this thing be and how hot will it
run with 10 cores inside this machine so we're going
to figure out all of that we're going to figure out
how much wattage it pulls we're going to see how it performs and i'm even going
to compare it to my mac pro before we jump in i have
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let's jump right into geekbench 5 and one interesting thing that i noticed
is this is labeled an i9 10 910 cpu i was expecting the 10 900k
but it looks like it's a modified version we'll see how it performs
uh let's hit run cpu benchmark and i have intel power gadget open i want to
see the frequencies we hit and how much wattage apple is allowing
the imac to run at so it looks like the 10 core the max it will hit is 5.0
just as advertised but it's good to see that we're actually hitting that
where a lot of times on the macbook pros they get close but they don't
and now we have 150 657 watts here 159
once we got some of the tougher tests that is really high
the previous i9 from last year the highest it
is 115 in geekbench 5. so apple is allowing this epu to get as
much power as it needs to have great performance
now for reference the a core the base one that comes this year
that hit 129 this year and actually went up to one
5.1 gigahertz for some reason slightly higher than it's actually rated alright
we have our score and i have to say this is interesting
our multi-core score is 97.37 which is higher than even the 10 core imac pro
but if we do the math that is just about ten percent more performance
than the a core that comes included without having to do this upgrade that
costs four hundred dollars more and ten cores it's about 25 more core so
we're not getting you know a linear amount of performance
and then compared to last year's i9 it's about 17 percent
more powerful this i9 compared to 2019 and now let's talk about the single core
1271 that's the highest single core score out of any
mac and what's interesting is not only does it beat out the 10 core imac pro
which i expected but last year's i9 that was actually the
fastest this year's i7 beat it and then this i9
beats it once again so not only do we have 10 cores now in
the system but it doesn't give up any single core
performance to the lower core models and now let's
touch on the graphics i'm going to go ahead and run
the metal test and what really excites me about this new imac is apple put
in the 5700 xt graphics card inside of here
that's the graphics card that i recommend most people get if they do
video editing on the mac pro it's the graphics card we recommend for
egpu setups and not only do they pop the desktop
class card in here but they also double the video memory so
if you just buy that graphics card for your pc or your
gpu is eight gigs of memory this one has 16
just like the one that you can get on the mac pro but it costs less money to
upgrade to and we have our score and wow that is
disappointing 57 898
we were expecting about 70 75 000 that's roughly what they get in a
mac pro with the egpu you're looking more at
about this performance i want to go ahead and run that again
because it seems like it should be doing better than that i don't know if apple
maybe down clocked the ones in this imac
just so that it doesn't put out as much heat or something like that
and with our second round we got 59 417 almost 60 000 now with that said with
the 5500 xt that we have in our acore model
it scored fairly low in metal but in the real world
video editing and other tests that we ran it actually performed
really really well so we'll have to do some more testing
now let's go ahead and open up unigine heaven which is a gaming benchmark
and we'll see if we notice a bigger difference here now as this is running i
want to point something out that just popped into my mind
so far things are kind of opposite from what i expected i expected the
performance scores to be higher but i also expected the fan noise to be
much louder and so far it's been completely
silent we'll see what we get towards the end of
this run but right now the graphics is running at just 75 degrees celsius
the test is done and wow we have 96.2 frames per second which is 50
percent faster than the 5500 xt that we have in our 8
core model and about 45 faster than the best
graphics card that you could get last year which was the vega 48 not only
that it also beats out the vega 56 and the
vegas 64 in the imac pro and looking at this score it's better
than i expected whereas the metal test in geekbench 5 was lower than i expected
so there might be something with drivers or the testing that's going on
because the real world tests that we're seeing with these new graphics cards in
2020s are really good and with that i want to
talk about thermals right now we're running at about 87 degrees celsius
and the fans did spin up just a little bit above
idle so if you are quiet you can slightly hear it almost like a
whisper but it is still running quiet even after i think it's
been more than two runs it keeps cycling here in the background so that is a
great thing and now for the ultimate test we have
cinebench r20 here we're gonna max out all 10 of these cores while keeping an
eye on our temperatures our noise the wattage
let's go ahead and get started here right away
our wattage is going up here 80 watts 142 146
148 it's leveling off which is interesting 150.
last year's i9 only hit 120 but interestingly the 2028
core actually hit 161 in this test now we're getting these
little wattage spikes and these little temperature spikes
which is showing me that it's actually throttling down the wattage
in order to keep it from getting too hot and the fans only now
are starting to spin up before it was silent so only towards the end of the
test and we have a score of 5 398 basically
5400 for our first run i'm gonna run that
again we're gonna see what our actual temperature stabilizes
that in the clock speed stable stabilize that but 5400 is right around
where my 12 core mac pro actually gets
instead of bench r20 even though we have two less cores
we're finishing up with our third consecutive run right now the fans are
at full blast 2700 rpms and it looks like the
stabilized clock speed is right at 4 to 4.03 4.06
last year's i9 actually did 3.75 gigahertz was what it stabilized that so
this year even with more cores uh the same cooling it's actually
running better but it's not running at that 4.4
gigahertz that the a core runs at i just let it cool down for a little bit
and i ran it one more time we got to score a 55
35 which is higher than my mac pro and i wanted to see this time
just that curve of how long it takes for it to heat up because
it does run hot and it is a much smoother curve it only
heats up towards the end of the test compared to some of the other macs which
they heat up instantly part part of that is because apple's
limiting this at 150 watts with the a core
it actually can go higher than this 10 core so they're trying to keep this
thing cool but in general you could expect 5400 to
5535 as far as performance now this score is
38 higher and faster than the previous last year's i9
but with that said it's about 14 faster than this year's
eight core which you do have to spend another 400 dollars to get that extra 14
of performance now in geekbench 5 we saw that it was more like a 10 percent
performance and that's with about 25 more cores just because that can run at
a higher wattage and higher clock speeds but that doesn't
tell the whole story we also have a bunch of other videos planned we're
going to do a bootcamp gaming video i'm going to compare how this does to my
15 000 mac pro and a lot more so make sure you
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that so overall what did we learn well first off the
graphics card that is in here is super fast at least in the one real
world test that we did it by far outperforms having an egpu
with the same graphics chip we also learned that the 10 core isn't
that much faster than the 8 core that you can get
with while saving a lot of money and based on our real world tests
you might want to just skip that option i also learned that it's not as loud as
i expected apple's doing a good job
managing the thermals so it doesn't heat up that fast the fans don't ramp up
super fast and for the gaming test it actually
stayed surprisingly quiet so there we have it guys let us
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