imac pro for premiere

jsyboy75  wrote I have a 10 core iMac pro. Adobe doesn’t seem to support multi core processing. Save your money.

Actually, you've reached into the law of diminishing returns, in this case. In Premiere Pro, there is a noticeable performance difference between a 4-core CPU and an 8-core CPU. Your response seems to imply that a system with a single-core, single-thread CPU performs as fast as or faster than a system with a multi-core, multi-threaded CPU at equal clock speeds, which is clearly not the case. I have tested such systems personally, and found that systems with CPUs that have only two physical cores but very high clock speeds perform significantly slower in Premiere Pro than systems with CPUs that have four physical cores but lower clock speeds.

By the way, some features that Adobe currently requires are being depreciated by Apple, beginning with the next version of OSX. Apple is planning to phase out OpenGL and OpenCL support beginning with OSX 10.14 - and if Adobe continues to require legacy OpenGL support just to run its CC apps, then future Adobe apps may not run at all on Apple systems without requiring a major rewrite of the program code.

Unfortunately, there is none. Only Xeons are currently available for the iMac Pro. Although both the i7/i9 X-series CPUs and the Xeon W-series CPUs use Socket LGA 2066, the workstation-class chipset that the iMac Pro uses may not be fully compatible with the i7 or i9 CPUs.

With that said, it's a tough decision between those two: You either gain total number of cores/threads or total all-core turbo clock speed, but not both. And Adobe Premiere Pro currently continues to perform worse in both OpenCL and MetAL than in CUDA (which only discrete nVidia GPUs support). And AMD continues to supply Apple with drivers whose OpenCL support is broken. This may change with the next MAJOR release of Premiere Pro CC.