New Mac Pro: 6-Core vs 8-Core Benchmarks & Impressions! (2013 / 2014) #Helpful Post

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guys John linear with TLD hope you guys

are doing well now for those who had

caught my setup and desk tour may have

noticed that I finally got my custom 8

Cordy 700 Mac Pro in and because of that

a lot of you who have followed my

coverage on the 6 core Mac Pro have been

asking if I can do an update video

covering comparisons of performance

between both these 6 core and a core Mac

Pro which I've had for about 2 weeks now

so I thought I would do an initial

impressions on my experience with both

models now before I continue I do want

to let you guys know that somehow I plan

on making this happen it compares from

the quad core 6 core a core and 12 core

Mac Pro's so thumbs up if you guys want

to see that happen so again this video

is going to be more impression based a

few benchmarks here and there but

overall more so just experience of using

both these six core and a core Mac Pro

now we're quickly going over the specs

between both these six core and a core

Mac Pro that I was able to check out

these six core obviously has less cores

but it's clocked higher at 3.5 gigahertz

this is configured with 16 gigabytes of

ram twin fire Pro d500 GPUs and 256

gigabytes of PCIe flash storage now the

eight core model like I said does have

more cores but that is at the cost of a

lower clock speed which comes in at 3.0

gigahertz this one is configured with 32

gigabytes of RAM twin fire pro d700 GPUs

which actually have 6 gigabytes of vram

versus the 3 on the D 500 now real

quickly before I jump into performance

coming from 256 gigs on the 6 core Mac

Pro up to 512 on the 8 core Mac Pro was

definitely nice 256 gigabytes goes

really quick and I know that can be

configured either way but if you are

configuring your Mac Pro if possible

trying to bump up that storage so moving

on to a few benchmarks in Geekbench 3

the 64-bit edition you can see the 8

core Mac Pro beats out the 6 core model

by about 5000 points in the multi-core

score now as far as the single core

score because these six core Mac Pro

does have a higher clock speed you can

see it's slightly outperforms the 8 core

on that aspect but not by a whole lot

same thing on Senate bench r15 on these

CPUs side of things the 8 core Mac Pro

outperforms the 6 core by a pretty

healthy amount now

on the OpenGL side of things however

there wasn't a huge difference between

the d700 and the D 500 on the a core

versus 6 core we're only looking about

seven and a half frames per second

difference between the two here so in

terms of OpenGL there really wasn't a

huge difference there but in lux mark

2.1 which benchmarks OpenCL performance

there was actually a much bigger

difference between these two with the

score of 4440 on the a chord D 700 Mac

Pro compared to 3194 on the 6 chord D

500 Mac Pro now moving on to more of the

impressions and experience with the

6-quart Mac Pro I really could tell a

difference with compressor 4.1 if we

head up to the preferences tab and go

over to advanced we have the option to

enable additional compressor instances

which will help increase performance and

on the 6 core Mac Pro we can add an

additional two instances now the way

that works is actually based off the

number of cores and the amount of RAM in

the system so if you check out Apple

support page it ranges from 4 8 12 16

and 24 cores now that is actually based

off hyper threading so these six core

Mac Pro actually features 12 threads so

that's why it falls in that middle

category and you can see even if you max

it out at 64 gigabytes of ram you can

only add additional two instances with

compressor now the eight core because it

has 16 threads it actually jumps up to

the next tier and you can add an

additional 3 instances to compressor

with this model that stays the same

across all amounts of RAM and you can

see if you did have the 12 core model if

you max that out at 64 gigabytes you can

actually bump that up to an additional 5

which is kind of crazy to think about so

what I'm doing with compressor has taken

a roughly seven minute ProRes clip and

I'm transcoding that into h.264 now the

way I have it set up first and foremost

it is optimized for streaming so that's

going to give it a compressed fast start

header I have it set to compressors

automatic high preset and I like to use

a multi pass transcode because if you

notice it's actually pretty interesting

you actually get a smaller file size if

you do it this versus single pass the

single pass transcode which is still in

the same high quality same length same

everything is coming about a gigabyte in

size whereas the multi pass transcode is

coming at just over 300 megabytes per

second so huge huge difference there so

during the actual transcode on the 6

core Mac Pro you can see we have that

initial compressor instant but we have

that additional to that we added

previously now conversely on the 8 core

Mac Pro you can see we have that initial

but in this case we have an additional

three instances one two and three extra

so after really pushing in maxing out

those scores on both the six core on

eight core Mac Pro it was able to

transcode a seven-minute Pro res file in

about three minutes and 21 seconds on

the six core Mac Pro whereas the eight

core Mac Pro did that same task in two

minutes and 36 seconds so we're looking

at about a 45 second difference between

the two which may not seem like a whole

lot but when you multiply that by days

longer projects that's going to add up

and save you a lot of time now as far as

if that extra performance is worth the

price difference between the two that

really comes down to how you use your

machine are you doing a few exports here

and there are you doing multiple per day

does save that extra time whether that's

minutes hours or days in the long run

save you money that's where you should

implement that into your buying decision

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experience and impressions video

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