As if we needed more examples to demonstrate how outdated Apple’s current Mac Pro line is, a $1500 USD AMD Ryzen R7 1700 powered PC recently smoked a loaded $5500 Mac Pro in a Photoshop benchmark. Tech Guy posted the showdown to his Youtube channel recently…
As if we needed more examples to demonstrate how outdated Apple ’s current Mac Pro line is, a $1500 USD AMD Ryzen R7 1700 powered PC recently smoked a loaded $5500 Mac Pro in a Photoshop benchmark. Tech Guy posted the showdown to his Youtube channel recently as part of a series for content creators to understand the differences between different systems. Mac Pro’s have maintained a strong reputation among creative professionals despite lacking any revisions since 2013. The two computers tested have more or less analogous CPUs on the surface, each housing 8-cores clocked at 3.0GHz. Both systems are running 250GB solid-state drives and the Mac Pro has four times as much system memory with 64GB of RAM to the Ryzen system’s 16GB. The GPU configurations are different with dual AMD FirePro D700 cards in the Mac Pro to the Ryzen system’s single Nvidia GTX 1080 , however this particular test does not leverage the GPU’s so the difference is effectively mute. Tech Guy’s test uses a benchmark from Keith Simonian Photography. It leverages a macro which applies various blurs to a test image and times the result.
