My current computer, a late 2015 iMac 27 has a 4 GHz Core i7 processor, 32 GB RAM, 3 TB Fusion drive, and Radeon R9 M395X with 4 GB VRAM, Retina display.
What kind of speedup with Mathematica, if any, might I expect from a new, 2019, iMac 27 with the following configuration?
- 3.6 GHz Core i9 processor (8-core)
- 64GB RAM
- 3 TB Fusion drive
- Radeon Pro Vega 48 with 8GB HBM2 memory
Although this new CPU has Turbo Boost up to 5 GHz, Im concerned that the default of only 3.6 GHZ, being below my current 4 GHz, might impede perfornance.
Presumably the graphics rendering will be faster, right?
Or do the additional cores make up for that difference? In fact, can Mathematica take advantage of those additional cores (without my explicitly coding for parallel kernels)?