$10,000 iMac Pro vs Custom PC - Which is faster??!

Tuesday, 03 April 2018 16:02

Check out the iMac configuration tested at B&H Photo: http://geni.us/iMacPro

Check out Puget Systems PCs at http://geni.us/PugetSystems

And my Eizo Monitor here: http://geni.us/EizoCG3184K

Here is the MacBook Pro I compared: http://geni.us/AppleMBP

PC PARTS LIST
Motherboard: http://geni.us/GigabyteX299
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/Motherboard/Gigabyte-X299-AORUS-7-rev-1-0-12214

CPU: http://geni.us/7940x
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/CPU/Intel-Core-i9-7940X-3-1GHz-Fourteen-Core-19-25MB-165W-12292

Video Card: https://bhpho.to/2EaZSrf
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/Video-Card/PNY-Quadro-P5000-PCI-E-16GB-11960

RAM: http://geni.us/256gbECC
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/Ram/Samsung-DDR4-2400-32GB-ECC-Reg-11769

M.2 SSD: http://geni.us/2GBnvme
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/Hard-Drive/Samsung-960-Pro-2TB-M-2-SSD-11979

SSD: http://geni.us/850pro
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/Hard-Drive/Samsung-850-Pro-2TB-SATA3-2-5inch-SSD-11148

HDD: http://geni.us/WDgold
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/Hard-Drive/Western-Digital-Gold-4TB-SATA3-11860

CASE: http://geni.us/FractalR5
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/Case/Fractal-Design-Define-R5-Black-10846

Power Supply: http://geni.us/evga
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/Power-Supply/EVGA-SuperNOVA-850W-P2-Power-Supply-11310

Noctua Fans: http://geni.us/NoctuaI4
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/CPU-Cooling/Noctua-NH-U12DX-i4-9919

Keyboard: http://geni.us/DASpro4
https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/Keyboard/Das-Keyboard-4-Professional-Mechanical-Keyboard-Cherry-MX-Brown-11864

Mouse: http://geni.us/Lancehead

CIDER HOUSE.... Geddit??
- NOTE - the 80 minute export time I achieved was exporting from the full 8k files to a 1080 final project. Unfortunately there are not many options out there in terms of codec for 8k just yet.

Amazon: http://geni.us/AmazonWorldwide
Adorama: http://bit.ly/Adorama_USA
B&H Photo: http://bit.ly/bhphotoUSA

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