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hey guys johnathan herewith TLD back with some brand spanking new 2013 27 inch maxed out iMac benchmarks so this is decked out with the high end 3.5 gigahertz quad-core i7 Haswell CPU the rama actually kept stock at 8 gigabytes because apple charges way too much for RAM upgrades I'm actually gonna do that myself I'm gonna upgrade it to 32 gigs after the fact so definitely stay tuned and subscribe if you don't want to miss that now I also did shoot all of the unboxing footage for this iMac and what I'll probably end up doing is rolling that all together into an ax boxing and review next week sometime but for now I really wanted to focus on the benchmarks and specifically the fusion drive now for those of you guys that have been following the channel and saw my 2013 MacBook Air coverage you'll know that Apple opted to go with PCIe flash storage as opposed to SATA and that resulted in a huge increase in speed now that same technology is supposed to be applied over to the new 2013 IMAX fusion drive so I was really curious to see how that compared to the 2012 model so after some benchmarks for the new 2013 fusion drive in terms of write speeds we're looking around 320 megabytes per second then hopping over to the read side of things we're looking at a massive and super fast 700 megabytes per second so that is huge now conversely on the 2012 iMac which I will note was equipped with a one terabyte fusion drive the write speeds were about the same at around 320 megabytes per second and then on the read side of things we were looking around 400 megabytes per second so that is still fantastic but you can see in terms of read the new 2013 fusion drive is a lot faster now there is also a flash only option on the new iMacs and I would guess based on these results that that would be around seven a hundred megabytes per second both ways read and write so you do get faster performance but you give up a lot of the storage next up we're gonna hop over to boot time and compare the 2013 iMac with the 2012 iMac and I actually had footage from when that iMac was brand new so it's not like I tested it after it was bogged down for a year or anything and the new iMac clocked in at just under 13 seconds worthy 2012 iMac clocked in at 16 point one seconds so you could see even with a larger capacity hard drive the new 2013 iMac was almost 4 seconds faster now I will also be doing more extensive testing in comparison between these two models with gaming with Final Cut Pro 10 After Effects Photoshop so definitely stay tuned for that in the meantime to hold you guys over at the very least I did check out Geekbench 3 so this dished out a single core score of 3830 for any multi-core score fourteen thousand four hundred and forty six now the 2012 iMac on the other hand that dished out a single core score of three thousand five hundred ninety six and a multi-core score of thirteen thousand nine hundred and seventy two and that was SPECT with a three point four gigahertz i7 Ivybridge CPU this did have 32 gigabytes of RAM however so I will update that in the full review to compare them head-on with 32 gigabytes in the 2013 iMac so definitely stay tuned for that so you could see there was a performance can it wasn't massive but I did expect that based off of the CPU comparison what I do expect to be a bigger difference is actually the video card in terms of rendering after effects and gaming so definitely stay tuned like I said I will be extensively testing it out very soon aside from that thank you guys very much for watching hopefully you enjoyed the video if you did and you are feeling like being awesome make sure to hit that like button it is much appreciated and as always I will return a virtual high five at your face if you guys have any questions on these new iMacs regarding buying decisions or hardware performance definitely drop me a line down below the absolute best way to get a hold of me however is through Twitter Facebook or Google+ I will have all those links down below along with all the gear that I use to produce these videos again thank you guys very much for watching this is Jonathan with TLD and I will see you guys later