Looking at purchasing in iMac Pro, mainly to run Vectorworks 2018.
Small to medium architecture projects, but doing BIM, often combined wiht scanned sketches etc, so we often have very large file sizes (200-400MB) and slow performance on our iMacs, particularly in 3D and when entering viewports. So I am trying to figure out the best combination for our purposes. Thinking of an iMac Pro with
- Vega 64 with 16 GB Graphics
- RAM - unsure, tending toward 64 GB. Is it worth it ? Or would there be a dramatic difference even going towards 128 GB?
- Cores : Seems that the more cores, the lesser the clock speed is on the iMac pro? And what does the turbo mean? So I am thinking :
- either the 8core 3.2GHz Xeon with turbo boost up to 4.2 GHz,
- or the 10 core 3.0 GHz Xeon with turbo boost up to 4.5 GHz . What would give better performance with Vectorworks ? Is it worth spending the extra $800 on the 10 cores?
Really trying to find the best value for money in this and making sure I set the right priorities where the money goes :-)
Would love some comments from people who know more about this (or have purchased something similar) than I do !
Thanks
Marc
