I was thinking about ordering the 2020 iMac 27' with 5700XT, which is competitive against 2070. But now the Nvidia have just released 3090 and AMD is going to release new graphic card as well, which are not more affordable. 5700XT seems way less tempting now. Furthermore, Samsung is releasing DDR5 memory. So, what are your guys opinions?
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Normally how often Apple update iMac graphic card and other specs?
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These are the last iMacs ever with intel and AMD graphics (or dedicated graphics at all), so the question is moot.
There may be an iMac Pro update. Ming Chi Quo said before covid that an update is due late this year with MiniLED and potentially RDNA2. Leaker _rogame on Twitter found two RDNA Navi 21 strings for Big Sur in the last week, so an iMac Pro with at least RDNA 2 doesn’t seem to crazy and may unfortunately make me sell my 5700XT iMac as true 5K gaming and better cooling would be great, the flicker has been somewhat annoying, and an even more future proofed last intel iMac would be ideal. Unfortunately those could just be upgrade cards for the Mac Pro, however there seem to be two variations that look to match iMac/Mac Pro modifiers but who knows. Fingers crossed!
Probably, as you'd assume Apple would be wanting to put their own GPU/APU into future consumer models - and keeping the big profits for themselves, rather than having to pay Intel/AMD/Nvidia for parts.
Even if they did want to put them into a iMac Pro or Mac Pro, I'm not sure Nvidia/AMD could produce enough cards for them - it's almost impossible to get any 3000-series GPU at the moment (I've been waiting over a month for my RTX3080 for my gaming PC, and there's no light at the end of the tunnel, other than the possibility of switching to a Radeon 6800XT instead).
I think that the likelihood of an update to the iMac that features both intel and an upgraded/next gen video card is remote. Though, almost anything is possible, historically this has not been the case. I'm waiting on a current gen 5700xt order, but am thinking I will wait until the 10th to pull the trigger on my purchase to see if there are any changes to the lineup... I don't want an ARM one as I plan on doing some gaming via bootcamp. Current machine is a 2015 iMac with top end Radeon 395x 4gb.