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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by old-gregg on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:55PM (#14490299)
To all of you who're disappointed by this not being a "proper Pro":

"4x larger L2 cache" and "2x wider AVX" suggest they're going to use the upcoming i9 X-series chips [1] that are based on Skylake design with ~15% better instructions-per-clock (IPC) performance than Broadwell-based Xeons, plus they'll clock much higher than Xeons too: with turbo boost up to 4.5Ghz for even the 10-core model!. Quad channel DDR4 at 2666Mhz is also an improvement.

All this promises a much better single-thread performance vs the current Pro line. IMO that's insane amount of power, it can even probably handle Slack desktop client! :)

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/11464/intel-announces-skylakex...

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by fliptables on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:59PM (#14493075)
The Core i9 X-series chips are basically cut-down Skylake Xeons (the new "xeon gold" line, probably)
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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by symfoniq on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:56PM (#14491945)
With ECC support, these are almost certainly Xeons, not Skylake-X.
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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by floatboth on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:00PM (#14491989)
They literally said "Xeon" on stage.
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