December 14, Apple announced the iMac Pro, a new product line designed to work for professional users who love the iMac's all-in-one design and workstation-class performance needs.
With the gorgeous 27-inch retina 5K display, up to 18 core Xeon processors and up to 22 teraflops of graphics computing power per second, iMac Pro is by far the fastest and most powerful Mac computer. iMac Pro includes powerful computing capabilities to handle real-time 3D rendering, immersive VR experiences, intensive developer workflow, high-pixel photography, sophisticated simulation, extensive audio projects, and real-time 4K and 8K video clips.
"IMac Pro integrates the superior design of iMac with the most powerful workstation architecture we've built so far," said John Ternus, vice president of hardware engineering at Apple. "The iMac's brilliant display and elegant design have always been well-liked by professional users. So we've rebuilt it to deliver the all-in-one performance that's beyond imagination. "
Equipped with next-generation processors, brilliant Retina 5K display, the most powerful graphics processor in Mac history, and ultra-fast storage and advanced I / O ports, the iMac Pro can handle the most demanding professional workflows The thoroughly redesigned All-in-One also brings true workstation-class performance. The new thermal design allows the iMac Pro to dissipate up to 80% less heat while still maintaining the elegant, quiet, slim, seamless aluminum and glass shell design that customers know and love.
The iMac Pro still retains a slim 5mm body and features a new deep-gray-gray exterior with a wonderfully-controlled keyboard, a wonderfully controlled mouse, and an optional Magelop 2. More advanced Mac display, 500 nits screen brightness, P3 wide color gamut and support for a billion colors, bringing a more vivid bright, vivid visual experience. In addition, the iMac Pro features four microphones with a beamforming algorithm, a new 1080p FaceTim HD camera for better performance in low light conditions, and new speakers for up to 50% volume up-and-down.
Next-generation computing core with cascadable HBM2 up to 16GB enables iMac Pro with Vega graphics processor to deliver 11 trillion transactions per second for real-time 3D rendering and high-frame-rate VR tasks Single-precision floating-point operations of the powerful computing power. And when it comes to half-precision operations that are ideal for machine learning, the iMac Pro delivers amazing performance at up to 22 teraflops.
iMac Pro also supports SSDs up to 4TB and ECC memory up to 128GB with up to four high-performance RAID arrays and up to two 5K displays through four Lei Li 3 ports. In addition, iMac Pro is the first Mac computer with a 10Gb Ethernet port to provide up to 10 times faster internet connection.
A new generation of iMac Pro takes Mac performance and portability to a whole new level, better than our current fastest quad-core iMac; 3D designers can visualize large 3D models and render scenes faster Up to 3.4x; Developers can run multiple virtual machines and various test environments, up to 2.4x faster code compilation; Researchers can manipulate large data sets and complex simulations to speed data visualization up to 5x Up to 4.1x faster image processing with up to 4.1x image processing speed; music producers can track (export) large multitrack projects up to 4.6x faster and can use up to 12.4x real-time plug-ins; video editors Editable up to 8 4K video streams, or 4.5K RED RAW video and 8K ProRes 4444 video in real time at full resolution without rendering. iMac Pro exports HEVC video up to 3x faster.
In addition to the new iMac Pro, Apple is also developing a completely redesigned next-generation Mac Pro that is modular in design to meet the needs of professional users for high-performance, high-throughput systems. In addition, there is a new high-end professional display is also in development. In China, iMac Pro will be on sale soon. In the United States, iMac Pro starts at $ 4,999.