Apple iMac 21.5" i5 2.9 (Late 2012)
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Apple iMac Pro 27" 10-Core Vega 64 (2017)

Product comparison with benchmarks

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Device Information

Silver Colours Space Grey
1,499 $ / 1,549 € Price from 6,399 $ / 6,959 €
Q4/2012 Release date Q4/2017

Processor

Intel Core i5-3470S Name Intel Xeon W-2150B
Intel Manufacturer Intel
4 / 4 Cores / Threads 10 / 20
2.90 (3.60) GHz Frequency 3.00 (4.50) GHz
22 nm Structure 14 nm
Ivy Bridge Architecture Cascade Lake SP
Q2/2012 Release date Q3/2017

Memory

8 - 16 GB Memory Size 32 - 256 GB
DDR3 1600 Memory Type DDR4 2666
-- Memory Bandwith --
Yes Upgradeable? Yes

Graphic card

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M - 0.5 GB Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64
Dedicated Type Dedicated
0.90 GHz Frequency 1.25 (1.35) GHz
1.00 GB Memory Size 16.00 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type HBM2
28 nm Structure 14 nm
Q2/2012 Release date Q2/2017

Graphic card 2

Intel HD Graphics 2500 Name --
Internal Type --
0.65 (1.10) GHz Frequency --
-- Memory Size --
DDR3 Memory Type --
22 nm Structure --
Q2/2012 Release date --

Screen

21.5 inch Size 27.0 inch
1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz (103 ppi) Resolution 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz (218 ppi)
16:9 Ratio 16:9
IPS Technology IPS
-- Max. Brightness 500 nits
No HDR support No
No Always On Display No
2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz 1. external display 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz
-- 2. external display 5120 x 2880 @ 60 Hz
-- 3. external display --

Storage

1,024 GB Size 1,024 - 4,096 GB
Harddrive Type SSD
SATA 6 GB/s Interface PCIe
Yes Upgradeable? Yes
Optional 1 TB Fusion Drive 2. drive --
SDXC Card reader SDXC

Network

802.11 a/b/g/n Wireless LAN 802.11ac
1 Gbit LAN 10 Gbit
Bluetooth 4.0 Bluetooth Bluetooth 5.0
-- Cellular --

Camera

0.9 MP, 720p Front camera 2.1 MP, 1080p
-- Back camera 1 --
-- Back camera 2 --
-- Back camera 3 --

Ports

-- HDMI --
-- DVI --
2x Mini DisplayPort DistplayPort --
2x Thunderbolt 1 (Mini DisplayPort) Thunderbolt 4x USB-C (Thunderbolt 3, DisplayPort, USB 3.1 Gen 2)
4x USB 3.0 USB 4x USB 3.0
-- USB-C 4x (Thunderbolt 3)
-- Lightning --
-- Other 1x Nbase?T Ethernet

Dimensions / Housing

450 mm Height 516 mm
528 mm Width 650 mm
175 mm Depth 203 mm
5,680 g Weight 9,700 g
-- Housing Material --
-- Glas Type --
-- IP Protection Class --

Additional data

A1418 Part-no A1862
iMac13,1 Ident-No: iMacPro1,1
2544 EMC-No: 3144
-- Security features --
Link to manufacturer data sheet Link to manufacturer

Benchmark results

Geekbench 6 - Single Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 6 - Multi Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 5 - Single Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Geekbench 5 - Multi Core

Geekbench 5 is a multi-system benchmark and measures the performance of a computer. Geekbench version 5 contains new test fields such as augmented reality applications and calculations for machine learning.




Cinebench R23 - Single Core

Cinebench R23 is the latest version of Maxon's render benchmark. It is based on the Cinema 4D application, which is used to generate 3D shapes. We use the single-core as well as the multi-core test.




Cinebench R23 - Multi Core

Cinebench R23 is the latest version of Maxon's render benchmark. It is based on the Cinema 4D application, which is used to generate 3D shapes. We use the single-core as well as the multi-core test.




FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS) - FP32 (TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS. TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second. The larger this number, the faster the graphics card is.




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