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will the iMac 5K Retina’s AMD Radeon graphics card be a problem for Premiere Pro CC and AE???
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Do both machines run the same OS-version?
Do both machines run with the same screen brightness?
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Yes on both. Same brightness levels and both running Yosemite.
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This is my first ever reply on Creative Cow. I’m a back and forth video professional…. I’ve done a couple of features and shoot talking head stuff from time to time. For the past 6 years I’ve used iMacs, Always the best of the best that was available at purchase time. I have (had) two mid 2011 27″ i7 3.4ghz iMacs with 256 SSD drives and 1tb 7200 RPM spinners. They have been great.
They both went kaput with video card problems within 2 weeks of each other. Keeping the story short, they were warranty deals and Mac agreed to replace them with the new Retina models. They assured me the new models would be faster than my older machines.
They gave me the i5 with fusion drive and 290 graphics card. Compared to my mid-2011, the thing is a boat anchor. About 15-20% slower in all things video. On the old machine, running an item in Compressor to prores HQ took 6min 30 sec. The new machine took 7min 45sec. Bringing it back to H264 took 16 min flat on the older machine, 19min 30 secs on the newer. Substantial difference. The Geekbench score was also lower in nearly every category (V2 32 and 64 bit) and overall 1500-2k lower than the identically set up 2011. I can say this because I actually have the IDENTICAL (same programs, desktop, everything) 2011 sitting right next to it to test. The only difference could be Yosemite, which is by default on the new machine.
I would imagine that the 4.0 i7 really rips, but the i5 is a slug.
Back to the mac store today. I will post more if I hear it is a simple fix. Any thoughts?
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Hi guys so I’ve been reading this thread, and I’m also a video editor looking to buy the iMac retina with the factory amd 290x.
How are things going so far? I mostly needed for 1080p editing on adobe premiere CC (I don’t think I’ll be using 4k any time soon). And even if I do use 4k, I don’t think It’ll be heavy editing with more than 3 video channels and some basic colouring effects. I mostly edit corporate edits so I might occasionally delve into after effects.
I also study game design so I might need to play some indie games every now and then, and develop basic stuff on unity.
Anyways, I’d like to hear the thoughts of some of you who have used the new iMac. I am looking for good performance, doesn’t need to be stellar!
Thanks
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Hi Joseph,
Can’t speak for gaming because I don’t have any on that machine. But I can tell you that I have no problem whatsoever editing 1080p and even 4K into a 1080p timeline on the 5K retina. The machine is supposed to be marginally faster (18% ) than a maxed 2012 iMac Retina.
No issues for me at least. Hope that helps.
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how much Ram is advisable for the new 27 inch Retina imac? 16 Gb or 32 Gb?
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I’d say it really depends on what you’re going to do. For After Effects-work at a little higher level and to never be limited by RAM, I’d go with 32GB.
Other programs like Premiere I’m not sure how much ram they’ll eat. FCPX is a very RAM-hungry app also so there I’d again for for 32GB.
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I bought the 5k iMac about 2 and a half weeks ago. I’ve had almost no problems at all. I got the i7 4 GHZ with 295 graphics card and 1TB fusion drive. I bought 16 more gigs of ram so I have 24 total now. Planning on upgrading to 32 eventually when I have the funds. Premiere runs great though with my current setup. I’ve had one Premiere crash in 2 and a half weeks of pretty heavy use. Only really good/bad side is that 1080p files look fantastic in their windows while editing because they’re playing virtually pixel for pixel. However, when full-screening anything 1080p it looks a little blurry because of the upscaling it’s doing. This can be solved with a nice client monitor though.
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I am thinking of purchasing the same set up as Ryan mentioned above, except with only 16GB of RAM, but the 4GB AMD GFX card. I need to run Premiere, After EFX, Divinci Lite, and Media Composer. Apple told me Flash drive would perform faster. I see you purchased with 1 TB Fusion Drive.
I will use mostly external storage for media. Anyone know if this is correct. Would purchase the 512GB Flash Storage. -
Fusion Drives work pretty well. Have one in my home iMac.
That said if you can afford an SSD and don’t need the internal HDD-space, go for it. The MacPro at work is a dream in this regard.
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