"IMac Pro" of the strongest spec from Apple history will exceed 1.5 million yen finally released at last

A processor with up to 18 Xeon processors and Radeon Pro Vega 64 for graphics can be installed The strongest monster desktop in Apple history "iMac ProIt was released on December 14, 2017. The price is from 55800 yen by tax, and if processor, memory, storage and graphics are made the highest specifications, the selling price will be 1,46 million yen tax excluding tax and this is a set of Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Trackpad 2 and VESA mount If you try to purchase options such as adapter kit and pre-installed video / audio editing applications for professionals such as Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X, the price jumps up to 1,536,999 yen, the maximum tax.

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

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iMac Pro was held in June 2017WWDC 2017It was announced in. The release time was only "December 2017", but suddenly the release on December 14 was announced in December, it was finally released. You can see how the specification of the iMac Pro looks and what kind of specification it is suitable for calling it as a monster machine by checking the following article.

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 - GIGAZINE


The specifications of iMac Pro are as follows. When purchasing with standard configuration, the price is 558,800 yen by tax.

◆ Processor
· 3.2 GHz 8-core Intel Xeon W processor (up to 4.2 GHz when Turbo Boost is used): Standard configuration
· 3.0 GHz 10-core Intel Xeon W processor (up to 4.5 GHz when Turbo Boost is used): + Tax of 88,000 yen
· 2.5 GHz 14-core Intel Xeon W processor (up to 4.3 GHz when using Turbo Boost): + tax of 176,000 yen
· 2.3 GHz 18-core Intel Xeon W processor (up to 4.3 GHz when using Turbo Boost): + tax 264,000 yen

All iMac Pro processors use Turbo Boost, Hyper-Threading, 4 channels of high-speed 2666 MHz DDR4 ECC memory, large capacity L2 and L3 performance caches, AVX-512 vector instructions. Even the standard 8-core Xeon processor is powerful enough to perform tasks that require machine power, such as game development and movie editing, but if running multiple applications at the same time or need higher performance 10 The core Xeon processor is ideal. For the 14 core and 18 core Xeon processors, "It is designed to run multiple professional applications that take advantage of extremely high multithreading", it is said that CPU rendering and compiling of large projects, It is an appropriate processor when executing a virtual machine or CPU-bound arithmetic processing.

◆ Memory
· 32 GB 2666 MHz DDR 4 ECC memory: standard configuration
· 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR 4 ECC memory: + Tax of 88,000 yen
· 128 GB 2666 MHz DDR 4 ECC memory: + tax 264 000 yen

◆ Storage
· 1 TB SSD: Standard configuration
· 2 TB SSD: + Tax of 88,000 yen
· 4 TB SSD: + Tax of 300,000 yen

The maximum SSD is 4 TB, achieving 3.3 GB / s write speed and 2.8 GB / s read speed.

◆ Graphics
· Radeon Pro Vega 56 (with 8 GB HBM 2 memory): Standard configuration
· Radeon Pro Vega 64 (with 16 GB HBM 2 memory): + tax of 66,000 yen

Radeon Pro Vega of iMac Pro adopts HBM 2 of the second generation high bandwidth memory which boasts up to 11 teraflops single precision and half-precision calculation capability of up to 22 teraflops and achieves memory bandwidth exceeding 400 GB / s doing. High bandwidth memory will be up to twice the iMac GPU and up to 3 times the Mac Pro GPU.

The number of monsters of iMac Pro is introduced by numerical value on official website. For example, in the case of Autodesk Maya 2018 of 3DCG production software, the difference in performance between processors is as follows. Compared to the 4-core iMac, the 18-core highest spec iMac Pro can be rendered 3.4 times faster.


Maxon Cinema 4D


Build time


OsiriX MD


Wolfram Mathematica


Adobe Photoshop CC


Pixelmator Pro


Logic Pro X


Final Cut Pro X


Compressor


In addition, if iMac Pro's processor, memory, storage and graphics are configured to have the highest specifications, the selling price will be 1,460,000 yen, excluding tax.

Customize iMac Pro - Apple (Japan)


In addition, the Apple official iMac Pro page has been updated to match the release, and the details of the T2 chip for custom silicon for the next generation Mac are also revealed. iMac Pro has T2 chip which can be said to be the successor model of T1 chip which is custom silicon for Mac which is installed in MacBook Pro.

The T2 chip is a chip redesigned and integrated with various controllers such as a system management controller, image signal processor, audio controller, SSD controller, etc., thereby increasing operational flexibility and improving security and system performance I can do it. In addition, the T2 chip incorporates Secure Enclave coprocessor and hardware encryption engine, enabling strong encryption on chip.

In addition, since SSD data is encrypted using dedicated AES hardware, the Xeon processor can completely devote itself to processing other tasks. In other words, encryption of SSD for security is dedicated hardware so encryption does not affect the performance of iMac Pro. In addition, it is possible to prevent tampering of the lowest level software by secure boot, so that only software of OS trusted by Apple at the time of booting can be loaded.

Also co-founder of Panic to develop applications for macOS · iOSCabel SasserAccording to Mr. Takashi, a new tool using the security function of the T2 chip is also introduced. For example, a new "startup security utility specialized for all-in-one" can prevent the Mac from booting from another HDD, CD, DVD without a password if the user has turned on the firmware password. Also, with the function called secure boot, it is possible to select the security level from full security to medium security.

And, they are for hardware verification of OS, kernel, boot loader, firmware etc etc ⑤ Security. This new chip means storage encryption keys pass from the secure enclave to the hardware. . (This can be disabled ...)pic.twitter.com/qKJ6bHdtr 8

- Cabel Sasser (@ cabel)December 12, 2017

The shipment of iMac Pro varies depending on the configuration at the time of article creation, and it is between 25th December 2017 and January 1st 2018 in the standard configuration, but the 18 core Intel Xeon W If you select a processor, it will be shipped in 6 ~ 8 weeks after ordering.