Apple at the WWDC 2017 announced iMac Pro,
which is its fastest iMac ever. It features an entirely new design, 27-inch
Retina 5K display with support for 1 billion colors, up to 18-core Xeon
processors and up to 22 Teraflops of graphics computation. It has all-flash architecture and all-new thermal
design, and promises up to 80% more cooling capacity with the same thin and
seamless iMac design.
It comes with new Radeon Pro Vega GPU, up to 16GB of
on-package high-bandwidth memory (HBM2), delivering up to 11 Teraflops of
single-precision compute power for real-time 3D rendering and immersive, high
frame rate VR. For half-precision computation, ideal for machine learning, iMac
Pro delivers up to 22 Teraflops of performance.
iMac Pro also supports up to 4TB of SSD and up to
128GB of ECC memory, and with four Thunderbolt 3 ports can connect to up to two
high-performance RAID arrays and two 5K displays at the same time. It also
features 10Gb Ethernet for up to 10 times faster networking for the first time.
The new Apple iMac Pro comes in space gray, starts
at US$ 4,999 and ships in December.
