cpu temperature of iMac mid 2017 core 17
Hi all,
Since about a month I'm working with my new iMac which has these specs:
iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017
APPLE SSD SM0512L 512GB with APFS filesystem
Processor - 4,2 GHz Intel Core i7
RAM - 40 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
Radeon Pro 580 8 GB
I mainly use the Mac to edit the photographs I take. The first application in my workflow is Photoshop CC 2018 which never forces the CPU to very high temperatures. Depending on the size and number of layers the next applications in my workflow (ON1 Photo Raw 2018 or DXO Photolab), are regularly forcing the CPU temperature up top to 99ºC for the hottest core. Also file operations in Adobe Bridge and ON1 Photo RAW, like indexing, copying or moving, make the CPU temp going up neat to 99º C
But most of my photographs are 360º panoramic images which I stitch and edit on the mac. After this editing I process them to interactive panorama photographs to put on one of my websites. The stitching and viewer applications (Panoramastudio 3 Pro and PTGui) don't cause any serious problems. My panoramas can be up to 5 GB in size (and about 85000 x 5000 pixels) before I flatten all layers and although my mac is very powerful the CPU temp is constantly just below 100ºC while editing in ON1 Photo Raw 2018, DXO Photolab or Luminar. I'm worried about this issue because I never experienced this behaviour before with my previous mac with Core i5 3.4 GHz. So I'm wondering if some of you can tell me more about the "normal" temperature behaviour of the iMac and if these high temperatures are normal?
Thanks,
Mathieu Elissen