Re: FCP X hardware performance

[Craig Seeman] "I am wondering how an i7 and Xeon of the same vintage compares though."

Well, if you look back at the tests I ran, The 12-core MP and the iMac are fairly close in vintage.

[Craig Seeman] "without going into all the details, FCP7 was faster"

I've done similar tests and seen similar results.

[Craig Seeman] "For example, would expect an 8 Core 3GHz Xeon 2006 MacPro to be faster than a 4 Core 2.8GHz i7 2011 iMac since 2006 MacPro has higher GHz and more cores? "

I think speed and cores per processor matter. In other words I have a sneaking feeling that you aren't getter double the bang just because you have two chips instead of one.

[Craig Seeman] "I might guess that the 2011 iMac would be faster (at least with regards to many FCPX functions) because of the improvements in the new i7 processors compared to 5 year old Xeons."

I would agree. I think in the case of FCP X specifically, the GPU is a huge factor.

- Oliver

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