Only the top-end 5K model is rated VR-ready, though, making Apple's VR entry point $2,300.
Those should deliver a far better gaming experience on the iMac, and it also increases the number of external monitors you can connect. The 5K models incorporate discrete graphics, with most-recent Mac-only AMD Radeon Pro 500 series options, a variant on the for-everyone-else RX 500 series. Only the HD 21.5-inch iMac still uses an integrated graphics processor (IGP), and that's been boosted to use the higher-performance Intel Iris Pro series. They're still all Core i5 or i7s, though. But the 27-inch models were already using sixth-generation CPUs, so while there will probably be performance increases, they'll likely vary a lot more with configuration. While seventh-generation changes don't make the new CPUs significantly faster than the sixth-generation ones, Apple was actually using fifth-generation on the 21.5-inch models that means they should be much faster than before.
2017 MAC MINI I5 MODEL NUMBER UPDATE
More powerĪcross all the iMacs Apple brought the systems into 2017 with the latest seventh-generation versions of Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors and an update to DDR4 memory with higher clock speeds memory clock speed seems to make a big difference as well, so the processing subsystem will likely be faster in all cases. Here's a breakout and analysis of the changes, including what the iMac Pro brings to the party and where Apple missed opportunities. If you've been champing at the bit waiting to buy a new iMac but waiting for Apple to update the components of the once cutting-edge but now tired old model, then most of the iMac 2017 updates really were worth waiting for: the 27-inch model, at least, is deffinitely a 2017 system inside and out.