Which imac is best for premier pro?

[JIBIN0101]

• I am looking by an iMac for using premier pro, however I am wondering if the following spcs will help me with the edit process:

  Display

  21.5-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display
  1920‑by‑1080 resolution with support for millions of colours

  2.3GHz dual‑core Intel Core i5

  8GB of 2133MHz DDR4 memory

  Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640

[Peru Bob]

Moved to the Video Hadware forum.

[Peru Bob]

The processor is too weak and you want at least 16 GB RAM.

You should also have a dedicated video card with at least 2 GB GRAM.

[JIBIN0101]

How about this spec sir?

21.5-inch (diagonal) Retina 4K display
4096-by-2304 resolution with support for one billion colours
500 nits brightness
Wide colour (P3)

3.6GHz quad‑core Intel Core i3

16GB of 2400MHz DDR4 memory

256GB SSD

Radeon Pro 555X with 2GB of GDDR5 memory

[RjL190365]

The iMacs that you have been looking at have not been updated in several years. The CPUs in them are now older-gen CPUs with no more than four threads - woefully inadequate for Premiere Pro these days.

[Kevin-Monahan]

I agree with RjL. You do not want to purchase a tired, old Mac. My opinion: A much better bang for the buck is the Mac Mini and MacBook Pros with the new M1 chip. Premiere is still in beta running natively on the M1, but it's already running well in Rosetta 2.

Thanks,
Kevin

[JIBIN0101]

Thats amazing to know this. But how will the following spec work for
premiere pro?
Processor Type
Intel Core i7-10700F
Processor Speed
2.90 GHz
Processor Cores
8
Processor Cache
16 MB
RAM Size
16 GB
RAM
HyperX 16 GB DDR4-2666 XMP SDRAM memory (1x16 GB) (expandable to 64 GB)
Hard Disk Drive Capacity
2 TB
Solid-State Drive Capacity
256 GB
Hard Drive Speed (Revolutions Per Minute)
7200
Graphics Card
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
Dedicated Graphic Card
Yes
Video Memory
6 GB
Sound Card
5.1 surround sound
Audio Output
Headphone/Microphone Combo

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*Regards,*
*Jibin Jackson *

[Peru Bob]

The 2 TB HDD should be a fast SSD instead.

[JIBIN0101]

Does the current SSD storage level stop a system of these specs from
performing seamlessly in Premiere Pro? Especially the GPU. Will they hold?

[Peru Bob]

If the 256 GB SSD has only the operating system and apps, it may be large enough.

That 2 TB HDD will slow things down, and depending on media and effects used, possibly to a crawl.

[RjL190365]

To respond to what Kevin stated:

Those particular iMacs date from 2017 and early 2019, respectively, and have remained completely unchanged (hardware-wise) since their debuts - and they are still sold brand new even today. In fact, the non-Retina iMac actually used a Kaby Lake (7th Gen)-based dual-core i5 mobile (not even a desktop) CPU. And all 21.5-inch Retina iMacs are stuck on the 8th-Gen Intel CPUs at this present time, while only the 27-inch iMacs received hardware updates fairly recently.

Now, as for your new system consideration:

The 10th-Gen Intel CPU that's in your new planned configuration is a bit outdated, in light of the new CPU developments from both Intel and AMD. And that planned custom build will only work if you're willing to give up macOS completely and switch to Windows 10. As such, I would hesitate doing so if you're so much into Macs.