Why does my 2020 iMac Pro say 2017?

[Mr_Brightside_@]

Having dealt with incensed customers with this same complaint, I can understand the confusion. All of Apple's tech specs/naming conventions are by year introduced, but the Store doesn't refer to these, unless you're on the refurb site. It's worst for mid to late year year updates, where someone has purchased a 2019 model in June 2020 (for example) and is incredulous that About this Mac lists it as the 2019 that it is.

 

[CheesePuff]

He has explained that he knew he was purchasing the iMac Pro, but that he mistakenly thought/assumed the iMac Pro had been updated at the same time the regular iMac was updated (2020). Which is not an unreasonable assumption, as Apple *should* have updated it by now, and you had to read all the news releases and articles carefully to realize it had not.

Even more confusing since there was a PR about the iMac Pro a couple months ago as they made the entry level config come with the 10-core Xeon, so one could assume it would be seen as a 2020 model.

 

[AZREOSpecialist]

If you need all those cores, great. Otherwise the 2020 iMac is faster and better in almost every way, including thermals. The iMac Pro did not receive an update with the 2020 iMacs, not even shared components. The iMac Pro is doomed to be discontinued at this point.

 

[CheesePuff]

If you need all those cores, great. Otherwise the 2020 iMac is faster and better in almost every way, including thermals. The iMac Pro did not receive an update with the 2020 iMacs, not even shared components. The iMac Pro is doomed to be discontinued at this point.

Uhh, the iMac Pro has much better thermals, two TB3 channels with 4 ports, better speakers and microphone array, and while in some gaming benchmarks the 5700 XT ($500 upgrade) is better then the Vega 56, the 56/64/64X has more compute units and better sustained performance (along with HBM2 RAM), and more

 

[iMi]

He has explained that he knew he was purchasing the iMac Pro, but that he mistakenly thought/assumed the iMac Pro had been updated at the same time the regular iMac was updated (2020). Which is not an unreasonable assumption, as Apple *should* have updated it by now, and you had to read all the news releases and articles carefully to realize it had not.

That makes a lot more sense. I think the way the original post was phrased made it seem like the author was unaware he purchased the iMac Pro. I don’t think Apple is to blame, but rather the press. Even Apple didn’t designate the pro with it’s “new” label. I’ve seen headlines saying Apple updates iMac and iMac Pro, so that I understand.

 

[iMi]

Uhh, the iMac Pro has much better thermals, two TB3 channels with 4 ports, better speakers and microphone array, and while in some gaming benchmarks the 5700 XT ($500 upgrade) is better then the Vega 56, the 56/64/64X has more compute units and better sustained performance (along with HBM2 RAM), and more

I would agree to some degree. I would say if the OP is primarily performing tasks that rely on the CPU, keep the pro. If he relies mostly on GPU, return it and get the new iMac. That’s what I would do anyway.