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Barefeats tests the new iMacs
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We just don’t know- so we should stop presenting supposition as fact.
I look at the promo page on apples site and I see lots of room for user accessibility.
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The best way to pre-judge this would be to look at the relative performance of the MacBook Air and the Retina MacBook Pro 13. These can be obtained in (Air) Dual-core, quad-thread vs (MBP) quad-core, 8-thread configurations. Both sport AVX in the cpu instruction set, and use Intel HD Graphics on board. So you get _some_ idea of the relative power of additional cores with the modern instruction set, and aren’t too distracted by differences in discrete GPU.
The important measures would be relative performance, not absolute, as the ability to bump a Pro up to more insane memory, the Xeon level of chip optimization and the dual Firepro gpus will make a world of difference.
Comparing machines with and without AVX (pre Ivy Bridge) would generally not be so indicative.
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Hello
I am a new member of the forum and I’m sorry if I make some mistakes.
I recently installed FCPX 10.1.1 with OS Maverik.
My Mac Pro mid-2010 has an ATI Radeon 5870 graphics card with 1024 mb. While working with FCPX images are a bit jerky, especially when using multiple filters. I replace the graphics card. I’ve seen the test but I’m not sure what to buy. On my machine can fit the GTX 780?
You can choose another? I also need a full hd video output.
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You might get more value out of a second 5870 card. Take a look at https://www.fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/18806-dual-gpus-in-old-classic-mac-pros . I have a 2008 Mac Pro which had a single 5770 card. I recently updated it so that it now has two 5770 cards, 16GB RAM and a 250 GB SSD boot drive. It is like a new machine and quite smooth with FCPX 10.1.1
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