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hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and this is a video dedicated entirely to the performance of the new Mac Pro so this is a bit of a preview leading up to the full review that I'm working on of the Mac Pro but I mentioned a little bit in my unboxing and first impressions video that I got the 8 core Mac Pro for a reason over the 12th core I actually opted for the 8 core model for a couple of reasons that we'll go into but essentially this is all the benchmarks and sort of performance tests that I thought would make sense for apples only workstation grading machine so there are a couple of key benchmarking apps that a lot of people use to benchmark Macs and all sorts of desktop machines that you guys shared with me on Twitter and things that I've used in past projects including the fastest Mac Mini in the world project and the hackintosh Pro project so the first of these is called black magic disk speed test essentially this just measures the read and write speeds that are going to be capable of on the Mac Pros PCI base SSDs so if you'll recall the fastest Mac Mini in the world project had a single vertex for SSD and the hackintosh per project had a pair of SSDs in raid zero but as you can see by the numbers neither of these compared to the results of the PCI base SSDs in the new Mac Pro and that's going to get you some crazy fast program opening times and data access all right so the next test is a very popular Geekbench app you've probably seen it already run on phones and tablets everything from the iPhone all the way up to the previous generation Mac Pro so as a benchmark the fastest Mac Mini in the world project scored around 10,000 on Geekbench that actually wasn't shown in the video series interesting ly enough and the hackintosh Pro actually scored fifteen thousand eight hundred and actually I want to be clear here these are the multi-threaded scores as Geekbench 3 here will always kick out a pair of scores a single-threaded score and a multi-threaded score so Geekbench on this Mac Pro kicked out without screen recording on 3600 for the single feted score and 26 thousand for the multi-threaded score and I'll give more context on these in a second so the next test is called nova bench it's a less popular benchmarking app a lot of people don't use it but since i've used it in my two previous projects then i figured i'd continue to use it now for a benchmark so it scored roughly 800 ish on the fastest Mac Mini in the world and roughly 1600 on the hackintosh Pro now even though it looks fairly comprehensive it's definitely an older benchmark and I don't even know if all the numbers looked right when looking at the composition for the final score but either way the final score here in Nova Bench was a much higher 2200 on the Mac Pro now last but not least in the benchmarking department is called Cinebench and actually think that Cinebench is one of the most accurate overall all-encompassing benchmark apps you can use it tests both the GPU side and the CPU side of things and there was a really wide range of scores you can get so on the GPU side this Mac Pro has the absolute highest end dual AMD FirePro d700 workstation grade graphics cards with 6 gigs of video RAM each and these absolutely killed it topping out the benchmark at an average of 86 frames per second this isn't necessarily a representation of gaming performance because they're not gaming cards but more of just how much power you have at your disposal with these cards in here that a number of production suites and applications can take advantage of and on the CPU side this is the 8 core beast like I mentioned and it ended up with a score of 1223 which is surprisingly not that far behind the 12 core Mac Pro at all and that's actually what impressed me the most but honestly with 8 cores 16 threads you kind of expect it to crush benchmarks and it absolutely did so it's really easy to tell by all these benchmark results that the Mac Pro is clearly a very fast very powerful machine but that brings us back to the question why did I go with the 8 core Mac Pro over a 12 core Mac Pro and the simple answer to that is single core single-threaded performance there is a four core six core eight core and twelve core version of the Mac Pro and each time you move up in number of cores you move down in clock speed from 3.7 gigahertz to 3.5 to 3.0 to 2.7 but the thing is higher clock speeds mean better single core performance for everyday apps but more cores in general means better multi-core performance for the bigger apps that can take advantage of it so the four core Mac Pro would be like driving a van down the parkway you know pretty fast but also still pretty strong where the 12 core Mac Pro on the other hand would be an 18-wheeler cab definitely not the quickest thing in the world but there is no way anything is going to slow it down even the heaviest of tasks so the 8 core Mac Pro would fall somewhere in the middle so at the end of the day as a person that's using the Mac Pro as both a beast of a video editing rig and a day to day machine it makes sense to have a nice balance between amazing multi-threaded performance and nice single core and everyday use performance which means when I'm running around videos in Adobe Premiere or projects in Photoshop and things like that all eight cores are going to be kicking in and it's going to take full advantage of that but at the same time at 3 gigahertz on a single core apps like Google Chrome and just browsing around the internet watching YouTube videos day to day things like that will also be quick and they won't be quite as slow as they would have been on the massive 12 course so there's the reasoning and there's the performance of the 2013 Mac Pro but there's a lot more information about that coming up especially in the full review video which is in the works and on its way thank you for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next video peace