Feedback on 10-core CPU

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Feedback on 10-core CPU

All,

I'm currently using the Mac Pro 3.7Ghz 4-Core and I'm pretty happy with the performance

The main tasks are 50% video editing with Final cut pro (soon in 4K), imaging and working with VM's with parallels but also 50% Office and iTunes. In the moment I would have the chance to get very cheap a 10 core processor E5-2690 3Ghz which would for sure boost the video editing.

The question is now about the Single-Core Performance ? On the internet there are quite a lot of benchmarks but I can't judge how they might effect my daily work esp. the 50% share of office and itunes. Is the performance still on a good level or it becomes sluggish ? Does anybody of you the 10-core or even the 12-core in usage to provide a feedback on the Single-Core Performance ? That would be great ... Thx in advance ,-)

Mac Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Oct 3, 2016 1:33 AM

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Answer 1

lllaass

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Oct 3, 2016 7:36 AM in response to 02247035

This provides some info on performance of the 2013 Mac Pro

http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#MacPro2013

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Answer 2

Oct 3, 2016 7:16 AM in response to 02247035

Dropping from 3.7GHz to 3.0GHZ will provide 23 percent slower performance for half your work.

I am very concerned you are looking ONLY a CPU performance -- a lot of Video editing is strongly influenced by Drive performance, and is sometimes not CPU-bound at all. Open an Activity Monitor CPU window while you are editing and see if all your CPU cycles really are used up. I would bet they are not.

Do you have separate drives for EACH of:

System/Applications/Paging

Video Source files

Video Destination files

Scratch or equivalent temporary files

If you do not, you will get a good speed improvement from having a drive for each. If you are still using a rotating drive for the Boot Drive, upgrading that to an SSD will seem like a whole new computer.

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02247035 Author

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Oct 3, 2016 7:40 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Dear Grant,

thx for the reply ! For the drives I got already the SSD solutions and also separated them. For the CPU this is now an occasion where I'm struggeling with myself. One the one side I might get them really cheap (50% off !) on the other side it's exactly the 27% percent gap which comes up and where I do not feel well in the moment.

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