The recently refreshed 27-inch iMac offers a lot of power and capability for the price, in the same chassis that it has used for years. How does the new model’s thermal performance under load stack up?
Compared to the aging iMac Pro, the 27-inch iMac with i9 processor delivers much more bang for a user’s buck. But the 27-inch iMac has a different thermal design than the iMac Pro — and it’s one that is, ostensibly, less capable on paper.
To see the 27-inch iMac’s thermal performance in action, we ran a model with a 3.6GHz 10th-generation Intel Core i9 processor through a variety of benchmarks. Here’s what we found.
Benchmarks
We ran the 27-inch iMac through several types of benchmarks and speed tests to get a broad overview of the power of its 10th-generation Intel Core i9 chip. Our test device only has 8GB of RAM but is equipped with an AMD Radeon 5500XT with 8GB of video memory.
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