Vincent Laforet's iMac Pro Review

Re:Vincent Laforet's iMac Pro Review by KSS42 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:11PM (#15909508)

I believe that Laforet's comparison is an i7 quad core iMac to 10 core Xeon W iMac Pro.

Cabel Sasser noted 41% improvement Mac Pro 6 core -> iMac Pro 10 core :

https://twitter.com/cabel/status/940669012765065216

Speed. We tried compiling one of our meatier Xcode projects on the iMac Pro (10-core Xeon W, 3 GHz) vs. our standard Mac Pro (3.5 GHz Xeon E5, 6-core). Sure, the Mac Pro is old, but the iMac Pro compiled the project 41% faster. A pretty sincere boost.

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Re:Vincent Laforet's iMac Pro Review by revelation on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:34PM (#15909725)

That is entirely expected for a 10-core vs. 6-core machine on a compiling workload.

As in, if this is a workload you care about, maybe what you really want is a 64 core EPYC not the "lowend" 10-core Xeon they managed to fit into the display.

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Re:Vincent Laforet's iMac Pro Review by pavlov on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @04:57PM (#15909898)

Now that you said it, I realized I really want a Mac with a 64-core EPYC...

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