I was intending to do a full comparison between the two – charts and all – until I discovered that the performance is almost identical. Which is quite disappointing, since the Vega64 in the 10-core iMac Pro is dramatically faster than the Radeon R9 M295X in the 2014 Retina iMac. On maximum settings – 2560×1440 … Read more
More thoughts in no particular order: The fan control algorithm is a bit amateur. It oscillates back and forth in frequency at a high enough frequency (0.1-0.2 Hz) – and with significant range – that it’s quite noticeable, audibly, and sometimes distracting. For some reason the full-load CPU frequency on my machine has dropped from … Read more
10-core w/ Vega64. Upgrading from a 2014 Retina iMac. Relatively briefly, and in no particular order: I don’t see why the very slightly different colour scheme, vs the regular iMacs, is such a big deal to some people. Yes, it’s fairly obviously a different colour. No, it doesn’t really look any better (nor worse) than … Read more