iMac Pro benchmarks & performance evaluations

Bare Feats – What If You Had A TITAN Xp Attached To Your iMac Pro? (Vega64)

Blender – BMW Scene GPU
DaVinci – Playback/Render 3NR FPS
Rise of the Tomb Raider – 2560×1440 High

Bare Feats – Rise of Tomb Raider: iMac Pro versus Mac Pro (8-core, Vega64)

Rise of the Tomb Raider
- 1920×1080 High
- 2560×1440 High
- 3840×2160 High

Bare Feats – iMac Pros versus Mac Pros running X-Plane 11 Flight Simulator (8-core, 10-core, Vega64)

X-Plane 11
- c4 test flight ‘1’
- c4 test flight ‘3’
- c4 test flight ‘5,4’

Bare Feats – 8-core versus 10-core iMac Pro: The Final Conflict (8-core, 10-core)

After Effects – BenchTest Render
Blender – BMW CPU Render
Blender – Pavillon CPU Render
Compressor – BruceX to HEVC
Final Cut Pro X – BruceX 5K Export
Geekbench – Single-core & Multi-core CPU
Photoshop – Noise Reduction
Premiere Pro – Export for Blu-ray
Premiere Pro – Blur Render

Ars Technica – iMac Pro review: Expensive, hard to upgrade, but holy Jony Ive it’s fast (10-core, Vega64)

Cinebench R15 CPU
Geekbench 4 CPU Single-core & Multi-core
- Native & in Windows 10 running in Parallels
Geekbench 4 GPU Compute (Metal & OpenCL)
GFXBench Metal Offscreen (1080p) – T-Rex, Manhattan, & Manhattan 3.1
Quickbench Storage Test, Extended Test Average
World of Warcraft: Legion FPS
Xcode WordPress iOS app compile

Craig A. Hunter – iMac Pro 18-core Follow Up Review (18-core, 10-core)

AVX-512 Vector Add Benchmark Parallel Performance
LINPACK Shared Memory Benchmark Using Intel MKL
USM3D NACA 0012 Airfoil Parallel Performance

9to5Mac – First 18-Core iMac benchmarks showcase obvious multi-core benefits (8-core, 10-core, 18-core)

AJA System Test (SSD Performance)
Final Cut Pro X 4K ProRes Export from 8K RED RAW (12:1)
Geekbench 4

Bare Feats – What if the iMac Pro had THREE Vega GPUs? (8-core, Vega64)

LuxMark GPU LuxBall
LuxMark GPU Hotel
Blender Pavillon Barcelona
DaVinci Resolve Play/Render 3NR nodes

AppleInsider – iMac Pro vs 2013 Mac Pro (Part 4) – 3D rendering and thermals (8-core, Vega56)

After Effects CC ProRes 422 Render
Blender BMW CPU
Blender BMW GPU
Maya 2018 Model Village Render

AppleInsider – iMac Pro vs 2013 Mac Pro (Part 3) – video editing (8-core, Vega56)

Final Cut Pro X BruceX
Final Cut Pro X 1080p Render & Encode
Final Cut Pro X 4K H.265 Encode
Final Cut Pro X 4K Render
Final Cut Pro X 4K Render & H.264 Encode
Final Cut Pro X 4x4K Render & H.264 Encode
Final Cut Pro X 4K Stabilisation
Final Cut Pro X 8K Render & ProRes Encode
Premiere Pro 1080p Render & H.264 Encode
Premiere Pro 4K H.265 Encode
Premiere Pro 4K Render & H.264 Encode
Premiere Pro 4x4K Render & H.264 Encode
Premiere Pro 4K Stabilisation
Premiere Pro 8K Render & H.265 Encode

DPReview – Speed Test: iMac Pro vs Alienware PC, Mac Pro and MacBook Pro (8-core, Vega64)

After Effects RAM Preview
Photoshop Radial Filter
Premiere Pro 4K Render

AppleInsider – Apple’s iMac Pro vs 2013 Mac Pro (Part 2) – photo editing comparison (8-core, Vega56)

Lightroom Classic CC
- Convert 50 RAWs to DNGs
- Export 50 JPEGs
- Generate 50 1:1 Previews
- Import 52 42MP RAWs
Photoshop CC
- 9 Shot HDR Merge
- Noise Reduction
- Open 9 RAWs

Bare Feats – iMac Pro Has A Thunderbolt 3 Storage Surprise For You (8-core)

AJA System Test – 16G Sequential Read
AJA System Test – 16G Sequential Write

Macworld – iMac Pro review: Mac Pro power in the shape of an iMac (8-core, Vega56)

Forecast MP3 Encode
Geekbench Compute GPU
Geekbench Single-core & Multi-core CPU
Handbrake 1080p H.264 Encode
iZotope De-Echo
iZotope Spectral Denoise B
Logic Bounce
Unigine Valley (High)

Cinema5D – iMac Pro Review – Is It Worth the Money? (10-core, Vega64)

Final Cut Pro X H.264 HD 25p Export
Final Cut Pro X ProRes 422 4K 25p Export
REDCINE-X PRO 6K ProRes 4444 Export

AppleInsider – Apple’s iMac Pro vs 2013 Mac Pro with benchmarks and specs (8-core, Vega56)

Cinebench R15 CPU
Geekbench 4 OpenCL
Geekbench 4 Single-core & Multi-core CPU
Unigine Heaven

Bare Feats – What if the iMac Pro had TWO Vega GPUs? (8-core, Vega64)

Blender – BMW CPU Scene
DaVinci Resolve – Play/Render Noise
DaVinci Resolve – Play 5K RED Clip
LuxMark – GPU LuxBall
LuxMark – GPU Hotel

DigitalArts – Apple iMac Pro review – this superbly designed workstation is most powerful Mac ever (10-core, Vega64)

Cinebench R15 Render & Real-time 3D
After Effects CC 2018 Render

Bare Feats – 8-core and 10-core iMac Pros Running Pro Apps (Part Two) (8-core & 10-core, Vega64)

Motion – Render RAM Preview
Compressor – BruceX HEVC 10-bit Transcode
Logic Pro X – Maximum Tracks
Blender – Render BMW Scene CPU-only & GPU-only
DaVinci Resolve – Transcode 5K RED clip to ProRes 4444 XQ

Mac Performance Guide – 2017 iMac Pro (8-core & 10-core, Vega56 & Vega64)

Scalability with CPU-Intensive, Memory-Intensive and Mixed Workload
- diglloydTools MemoryTester: Scalability
  - CPU / No Mem
  - SHA1 Hash
  - Memory Intensive
CPU Cores, Clock Speed, Turbo Boost
Power Usage (Watts)
Flash Drive (SSD)
- disktester Speed vs Transfer Size
- disktester 8 GB Sequential
APFS vs HFS SSD Speed
Grep (Search)
Integrity Checker Verify
diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks
- Photoshop CC 2018 v19.0
Photoshop Filters
- Photoshop CC 2018 v19.0
RAW to JPEG
- Photoshop CC 2018 v19.0
Real World Photoshop: Make Multi-Res Image Series
- Photoshop CC 2018 v19.0
Lightroom Import and Export
- Export 522 JPEGs
- Import 522 RAWs with 1:1 Previews
CaptureONE Pro
- Export 352 JPEGs
- Import 352 RAWs
Iridient Developer
- Iridient Developer 3.2.1, Reveal v4 Detail+
Zerene Stacker
- 20-frame Focus Stack DMAP & PMAX
Helicon Focus (and subsequent follow-up with Helicon Focus 7.0.0)
XCode Build C++ Project

DigitalFilms – Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces (10-core, Vega64)

Adobe Media Encoder 1080p ProRes to 4K H.264 Transcode
Adobe Media Encoder OpenCL ProRes Render
After Effects ProRes Render
Compressor 1080p ProRes to 4K H.264 Transcode
Final Cut Pro X BruceX Render & Export
Final Cut Pro X Playback
Final Cut Pro X Render & ProRes Export
Premiere Pro Playback w/ Single & Multi-layer sequences

Bare Feats – Low End iMac Pro Running Pro Apps (8-core & 10-core, Vega64)

After Effects CC Render
Compressor Export
Final Cut Pro X Export
Lightroom Classic CC JPEG Export
Photoshop CC Noise Reduction
Premier Pro CC Export

Bare Feats – Low End iMac Pro Running Games versus Other Macs (8-core Vega64)

DIRT Rally 2560×1440 Average FPS
Tomb Raider 2560×1440 High FPS
Total War: Warhammer 2560×1440 High FPS
Tomb Raider 2560×1440 High FPS

Bare Feats – Low End iMac Pro versus two Mac Pros and one iMac 5K (8-core & 10-core, Vega64)

DaVinci Resolve 14 Noise Reduction
Cinebench Multi-Core CPU
Geekbench Metal Single GPU
Geekbench Multi-Core CPU
Geekbench OpenCL Single GPU
LuxMark GPU LuxBall
LuxMark Multi-Core CPU

Bare Feats – iMac Pro with Pro Vega 56 GPU
versus optional Pro Vega 64 (8-core, Vega56 & Vega64)

Cinebench OpenGL
Compressor Transcode (BruceX to Apple 4K)
Final Cut Pro X Export (BruceX to ProRes 4444 XQ)
Geekbench 4 Metal GPU Compute
Geekbench 4 OpenCL GPU Compute

Bare Feats – iMac Pro PCIe-based Flash Storage: How Fast Versus Other Macs?

AJA System Test 15G Sequential Reads & Writes

fcp.co – Testing the Apple Pro Video Apps on the New iMac Pro (10-core, Vega64)

Compressor 4.4.0 H.264 & MXF Export (from ProRes 422)
Final Cut Pro X 10.4.0 4K Export to ProRes 422, H.264, & MXF
Final Cut Pro X 10.4.0 BruceX XML Test
Final Cut Pro X 10.4.0 Import Clips
Final Cut Pro X 10.4.0 Multicam Playback & Render
Final Cut Pro X 10.4.0 ‘Real World’ H.264 Export
Final Cut Pro X 10.4.0 Render Optimized Media
Final Cut Pro X 10.4.0 Render Proxy Media
Final Cut Pro X 10.4.0 Timeline Render
Motion 5.4.0 Emitter Export to H.264 & ProRes 4444 XQ
Motion 5.4.0 Graphic Heavy Commercial Export to H.264 & ProRes 4444 XQ

AppleInsider – Putting the iMac Pro thermals to the test (8-core, Vega56)

Cinebench R15 Multi-Core CPU
Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate Transcode 4K HEVC to Apple ProRes
Unigine Heaven

Six Colors – The iMac Pro has landed (8-core, Vega56)

ffmpeg WAV Conversion
Handbrake Transcode 1080p to lower resolution
iZotope RX 6 Spectral Denoise
sidetrack Audio Sync

AppleInsider – Review: Apple’s powerhouse iMac Pro wows with stellar performance and design (8-core, Vega56)

After Effects 2018 EQUILOUD Benchmark Sequence (inc. Export to ProRes 422)
Cinebench R15 Single-Core & Multi-Core CPU
DaVinci Resolve 14.2 Canon Cinema RAW Lite Playback & Export
DaVinci Resolve 14.2 H.264 1080p & 4K Render & Export
DaVinci Resolve 14.2 Motion Stabilization
DaVinci Resolve 14.2 Red RAW 4.5K & 8K Playback, Render, & Export
Final Cut Pro X 10.4 4K Motion Stabilization
Final Cut Pro X 10.4 BruceX ProRes 422 Export
Final Cut Pro X 10.4 Canon Cinema RAW Lite Playback & Export
Final Cut Pro X 10.4 H.264 1080p & 4K Export
Final Cut Pro X 10.4 Intel Quick Sync H.264 Encode
Final Cut Pro X 10.4 Red RAW 4.5K & 8K Playback, Render, & Export
Geekbench 4 Single-Core & Multi-Core
Geekbench 4 OpenCL GPU Compute
Geekbench 4 Metal GPU Compute
Lightroom Classic CC DNG Conversion
Lightroom Classic CC Generate 1:1 Previews
Lightroom Classic CC JPEG Export
Lightroom Classic CC RAW Import
Maya 2018 “Model Village” 640×480 Render to ProRes 422
Photoshop HDR
Photoshop Noise Reduction
Premier Pro 2018 4K Motion Stabilization
Premier Pro 2018 H.264 1080p & 4K Render & Export
Premier Pro 2018 Red RAW 4.5K & 8K Playback, Render, & Export
Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate Transcode 4K HEVC to Apple ProRes
Unigine Heaven Extreme

Craig A. Hunter – 2017 iMac Pro Review (10-core, Vega64)

NASA TetrUSS CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) w/ NACA 0012 airfoil CRM transport aircraft
- VGRID Surface Mesh Generation (237,660 Triangles) Single-core
- USM3D Parallel Performance
- USM3D Parallel Scaling
Objective-C, C, & Swift Compilation w/ Xcode
Vectorization Speedup – Simple Add

Lomesi – With the iMac Pro, Apple promised so lightning rates: Apple T2 chip (10-core)