iMac Pro, the fastest, most powerful Mac ever made. Photo courtesy of Apple

Cupertino, California, USA – December 14, 2017

Apple today released iMac Pro, an entirely new product line designed for pro users who love the all-in-one design of iMac and require workstation-class performance.

With Xeon processors up to 18 cores, up to 22 Teraflops of graphics performance, and a brilliant 27-inch Retina 5K display, iMac Pro is the fastest, most powerful Mac ever made.

iMac Pro delivers incredible compute power for real-time 3D rendering, immersive VR, intensive developer workflows, high megapixel photography, complex simulations, massive audio projects and real-time 4K and 8K video editing.

At just 5mm thin, iMac Pro features a stunning new space gray finish and comes with matching accessories. Photo courtesy of Apple

“iMac Pro combines the incredible design of the iMac with the most powerful workstation architecture we’ve ever built,” said John Ternus, Apple’s vice president of Hardware Engineering.
“iMac is the most popular desktop for our pro users due to its amazing display and elegant design, so we completely re-engineered it to deliver performance far beyond what anyone thought possible in an all-in-one.”


Workstation-Class Performance in an iMac Design

With next-generation processors, a stunning Retina 5K display, the most powerful graphics ever in a Mac, super-fast storage and advanced I/O, iMac Pro is designed to handle the most demanding pro workflows and is the first all-in-one built from the ground up to deliver true workstation-class performance.

At just 5mm thin, iMac Pro features a stunning new space gray finish and comes with matching accessories. Photo courtesy of Apple

Featuring an all-new thermal architecture, iMac Pro delivers up to 80 percent more cooling capacity in the same amazingly quiet, thin and seamless aluminum and glass enclosure customers know and love.

Still just 5mm at its edge, iMac Pro comes in a stunning new space gray finish with a matching Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse and optional Magic Trackpad, and features the best Mac display ever, with 500 nits of brightness, a P3 wide color gamut and support for 1 billion colors, delivering an even more vivid and true-to-life viewing experience. 

At just 5mm thin, iMac Pro features a stunning new space gray finish and comes with matching accessories. Photo courtesy of Apple

iMac Pro also comes with four microphones with beamforming technology, a new 1080p FaceTime HD camera with enhanced low-light performance, and new speakers that are up to 50 percent louder.


The Most Advanced Graphics Ever in a Mac

Featuring a next-generation compute core and up to 16GB of on-package high-bandwidth memory (HBM2), iMac Pro with the Vega GPU delivers up to an amazing 11 Teraflops of single-precision compute power for real-time 3D rendering and high frame rate VR. And for half-precision computation, ideal for machine learning, iMac Pro delivers up to an incredible 22 Teraflops of performance. 

With four Thunderbolt 3 ports iMac Pro can connect up to two high-performance RAID arrays and two 5K displays at the same time. Photo courtesy of Apple

iMac Pro also supports up to 4TB of SSD and up to 128GB of ECC memory, and with four Thunderbolt 3 ports, can connect up to two high-performance RAID arrays and two 5K displays at the same time.

For the first time ever on a Mac, iMac Pro features 10Gb Ethernet for up to 10 times faster networking.


Delivering Power to the Pro

iMac Pro takes Mac performance to a whole new level, even when compared to our fastest quad-core iMac.

• 3D designers can visualize huge 3D models and render scenes up to 3.4 times faster.

• Developers can run multiple virtual machines and test environments, and compile code up to 2.4 times faster.

• Scientists and researchers can manipulate massive data sets and complex simulations, visualizing data up to 5 times faster.

• Photographers can work with enormous files and perform image processing up to 4.1 times faster.

• Music producers can bounce (export) massive multi-track projects up to 4.6 times faster and use up to 12.4 times as many real-time plug-ins.

• Video editors can edit up to eight streams of 4K video, or edit 4.5K RED RAW video and 8K ProRes 4444 at full resolution in real time without rendering. The iMac Pro can also export HEVC video 3 times faster.

iMac Pro delivers amazing power and performance for pro apps and workflows including 3D rendering, complex simulations and high-demand workflows. Photo courtesy of Apple

Testing conducted by Apple in November 2017 using pre-production 2.3GHz 18-core Intel Xeon W-based 27-inch iMac Pro systems with 128GB of RAM and pre-production 3.0GHz 10-core Intel Xeon W-based 27-inch iMac Pro systems with 64GB of RAM, both configured with Radeon Pro Vega 64 graphics with 16GB of HBM2.

For more details on performance please see apple.com/imac-pro.

https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/  


A New Level of Integration and Security

iMac Pro brings a new level of integration and security to the Mac with the T2 chip, Apple’s second generation custom Mac silicon.

iMac Pro delivers amazing power and performance for pro apps and workflows including 3D rendering, complex simulations and high-demand workflows. Photo courtesy of Apple

By designing and integrating several new controllers - such as the System Management Controller, image signal processor, audio controller and SSD controller - T2 delivers new capabilities to the Mac like enhanced imaging processing for the FaceTime HD camera.

T2 also enables a new level of security by including a secure enclave coprocessor that provides the foundation for new encrypted storage and secure boot capabilities.

Dedicated AES hardware encrypts data on the SSD without affecting performance, while secure boot ensures that only trusted software loads at startup. 

iMac Pro delivers amazing power and performance for pro apps and workflows including 3D rendering, complex simulations and high-demand workflows. Photo courtesy of Apple

In addition to the new iMac Pro, Apple is working on a completely redesigned, next-generation Mac Pro architected for pro customers who need the highest performance, high-throughput system in a modular, upgradeable design, as well as a new high-end pro display.


Pricing and Availability

iMac Pro is available on December 14, starting at an Apple retail price of $4,999 (US).

More details can be found at apple.com/imac-pro.

https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/  


Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984.

Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.

Apple’s four software platforms - iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS - provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud.

Apple’s more than 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.


Press Contacts

Jennie Orphanopoulos
Apple
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(408) 783-0203

Bill Evans
Apple
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Apple Media Helpline
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Source: Apple Newsroom

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