Apple's strongest desktop iMac Pro from selling price of 550,000 yen has appeared, up to 18 cores of Xeon processor & monster machine with Radeon Vega

Apple held for developersWWDC 2017Among the most powerful Apple history ever adopting up to 18 Xeon processors and Radeon VegaIMac ProWe announced. Apple says, "When we hear from professional people that we wanted to make a tremendous iMac, our motivation caught fire," and it is finished in a monster machine of professional use specification completely.

IMac Pro - Apple (Japan)
https://www.apple.com/jp/imac-pro/

Apple Events - WWDC Keynote, June 2017 - Apple
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2017/

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You can see the movies of iMac Pro that flowed at the venue of WWDC 2017 from the following.

Introducing iMac Pro - Apple - YouTube


Speaking of iMac's main body color was "Silver", the color of the newly announced "iMac Pro" is "Space Gray".


IMac Pro processors can be selected from 8 core / 10 core / 18 core Xeon processors. Turbo Boost of up to 4.5 GHz is also possible, caching up to 42 MB, file rendering, 4 K video editing, real-time audio effect creation, etc hard processing without difficulty. On the official website of Apple, I wrote that "It is not a misprint of 18-core installed iMac," about up to 18 cores of Xeon processors, and it shows off its overwhelming specifications.


GPU adopted Radeon Pro Vega. Since the on-package HBM 2 replaces the external VRAM, the GPU can acquire data at a maximum of 400 GB / s. GPU's memory is 8 GB or 16 GB.


Single precision up to 11 teraflops


Half accuracy up to 22 teraflops


Up to 128 GB · 2666 MHz DDR 4 ECC memory is installed, it can support visualization, simulation and rendering of 3D model.


The maximum SSD is 4 TB, the throughput is as fast as 3 GB / s.


Four Thunderbolt 3 ports (USB-C) installed



10 Gb Ethernet


If you connect two RAID systems and two 5K displays to the four Thunderbolt 3 ports, you can also build a powerful workstation.


In this case the display will be up to 44 million pixels.


The iMac Pro's display is a 27-inch screen that corresponds to over 1 billion colors with brightness of 500 nitro, 14.7 million pixels, P3 color gamut when it is single.


If it is a normal workstation, it will cost more than $ 7000 (about 770,000 yen) ......


"IMac Pro" is more than a workstation and costs 4999 dollars (about 550,000 yen).


Applause applauded from the venue.


Release is December 2017.


In addition, the keyboard and mouse are all in space gray.


A movie showing overwhelming specifications of the iMac Pro has also been released.

IMac Pro - Power to the pro - Apple - YouTube


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