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hey how's it going Dave 2d here so this is the 2017 27-inch iMac and this is their full respect at one it's got the 7700 K and the Radeon Pro 580 and if you purchased this from Apple from their website it would be closing it at fifty three hundred dollars which is disgusting now I purchased the eight gig model and I added my own RAM to get up to 64 so if you purchase a 27-inch iMac I highly recommend you do the same because Apple charges crazy amounts of money for their ram now just a quick hardware overview this year the 5k display has been improved a little bit it's supposed to get 40 percent brighter you can notice it in a really bright room but it is measurable with the spider the drive speeds are faster this generation particularly the right speeds now this is the two terabyte model I'm not sure if the smaller drives are slower now in terms of the ports we get for USB a and a couple of USB see that support download three is just a wider spread of ports than the previous generation with a Thunderbolt 3 port external GPU connections work really well in Windows I tried both the Razer core and the Bizon box 3 those connect without a hitch but in Mac OS I'm still getting hiccups now I don't know if I just need a newer version of Mac OS so High Sierra is supposed to support external GPUs a lot better so I'll probably visit that in the near future the dedicated GPS this year are the Radeon Pro 500 series and the one in here is the Radeon Pro 580 which is based on the rx 580 not the most powerful GPU in the world I mean on paper it's not too bad it looks like it's between a GTX 1060 and a 1070 but that's what I wanted to do test the hard work to see what it could do for games and video editing so first I played some games on Mac OS and the performance is better than I thought it would be apple claims that you can get up to 50% better frame rates compared to the previous generation and playing some blizzard games I'm actually getting around 40% better so that's not bad now blizzard is a developer that put a ton of effort into the Mac content but overall pretty impressed with the gameplay now playing some steam games I don't have anything super demanding in my Steam library for Mac OS but for the curious here's some data when running at 1440p now if I play at 5k resolution as expected frame rates get choppy but let's be real here max aren't meant for 5k gaming and at 1440p at this screen size games look really good running bootcamp Windows the Radeon Pro 580 actually gets to show off a little bit more the biggest difference that you can play overwatch in Windows you still can't play anything in 5k but whatever some games have scaling issues because it's not a standard 16 by 9 screen you get some black flowers at the top and bottom nothing too bad and in general this card does well for gaming and boot camp very comfortable performance in 1440p for moderately demanding games heavier games and also poorly optimized games you'll have to drop quality or run at 1080p but if you want to play games on the Radeon Pro 580 you're good to go now I try to connect my vibe to test out VR games but I couldn't get it to connect I'm not sure if it needs drivers from HTC or if I need to get high sea air running up on this but yeah I'll have to revisit that in the future right now can't get it to connect ok video editing in Adobe Premiere Pro now this is where I found the most surprising results the previous top end iMac with the m3 95 X was never great in Premiere but these new Radeon Pro GPUs they're pretty good the 580 keeps up with the gtx 1064 4k footage and for 5k footage from the scarlet w it's actually a little bit faster and i tested this a couple times now let's keep in mind this machine is stupidly expensive I mean you could build a PC with a 7700 K and a gtx 1060 for like eight $900 it wouldn't have this amazing 5k panel but it would be a lot cheaper it's hard to compare the two because of this panel the takeaway is this the Radeon pro 580 in here is a better card than I thought it would be it's an Apple iMac and if you build it like disk configuration it's idiotic you're still over paying through the nose if you build a more reasonable configuration I think for like twenty five hundred bucks you can get something that still has this great card and has good components that's a better value it's still an apple it's still an iMac you're overpaying but it's a better value than Apple I max have been in the past okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it something you'd loved it see you guys next time you