Imac 2019

[oxidia]

Good afternoon. Please give advice. I want to buy an Imac to work with 4K Video and Photos. Not a Pro, I've never worked on an Imac. Will this configuration be enough?

• 3.1GHz 6-core 8th-generation Intel Core i5 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.3GHz
• 8GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory (later add )
• Radeon Pro 575X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory
• 1TB SSD storage

Or should I change something? For example I9 or 580X or Vega48. Once again, I'm not a Pro. Just going to learn to work with Final cut.
Thanks in advance for the answers

 

[tehStickMan]

That'll do for 4K. Premiere Pro might struggle, and Lightroom is a slog on macOS.

If you use those programs and don't need Mac, get a Windows box (with Nvidia GPU) and it'll perform leaps and bounds better.

If using Final Cut it'll be good for 4K video.

 

[nihil0]

For photos and Lightroom specifically the higher single core speed the better (and also for export tasks the higher count the better)... so 3.7 GHz 6-core CPU would be better IF you process large batches of files... if not then it is OK and as it was mentioned before, Lr is a slog on macOS (you can help yourself though by rendering 1:1 previews although for large batches it takes huge ammount of time)

 

[oxidia]

Huge difference for simple tasks if I put i9 or 580x or vega48 not get - right? Also wanted to ask: how much RAM will be enough for comfortable work-16,32,64?

 

[nihil0]

I can only answer for photography part. i9 is only better if you will be processing large amounts of RAW files (like hundreds to thousands) on daily/weekly basis. If not, 6-core is OK. Regarding GPU, R580X is more than enough for Lr/Ps. RAM is questionable, because macOS will always use amount of RAM you have to speed up tasks. But for comfortable photo work, even 16 GB is enough. Buy basic 8 GB RAM+16 GB RAM from 3rd party and you are good to go.