iMac Pro : Apple’s latest release

This week in New York, the presentation of the new Apple iMac Pro took place. In addition to the new design presented in a “space gray”, the American company has presented the new features of its latest desktop computer. Among them we find

• Two-fan cooling.
• Turbo Boost up to 4.5 GHz
• Up to 42 MB cache
• Intel Xeon processors with 8, 10 or even 18 cores.
• AMD Radeon Pro Vega dedicated graphics cards with up to 16GB of HBM2 memory.
• Up to 128 GB ECC memory and up to 4TB of SSD storage.
• 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports.
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
• 5K retina display

This new iMac Pro will not be available for all budgets, as it starts at 5499 euros. It is already available for purchase on its website.

First approach to the new version of Cinema 4D

the company Maxon took the opportunity to also present the latest version of the Cinema 4D software. This program served to illustrate the power of the new iMac combined with additional hardware.

To do this, they made use of two Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Boxes (external cases that carry a graphics card inside or a specialized acceleration board such as Avid Pro Tools | HDX). To show the power of both, they used a scene of a complete CAD model: a motorcycle with millions of polygons. Later they used as an example a shot of a light bulb and glass refraction. Such an update should start in January, although eGPU support for Apple is still in beta and really only for developers. Full support should be available this spring.