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Big iMac News: Less Heft, More Kepler

By on Oct 23 2012
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Apple consistently demonstrates its knack for designing exciting new products that are thinner and lighter, and deliver more performance than the generation they replace. And the all new iMac follows that trend.

Within Apple’s slim new 21.5- and 27-inch iMacs are NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, based on our new Kepler-class architecture, which helps make them up to 60 percent faster than last year’s models. This follows news in June that Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display uses Kepler GeForce GPUs.

The new 27-inch iMac offers the GeForce GTX 660M as its base GPU, with even faster GeForce GTX 675MX or GeForce GTX 680MX GPUs available. The 21.5-inch model comes with the GeForce GT 640M GPU, with an available upgrade to the GeForce GT 650M GPU.

Apple is synonymous with top-performance, high-quality products, so we suspect that it’s no coincidence that the new iMac uses GeForce. Kepler’s unprecedented performance and incredible power efficiency make it a great fit for the sleek new iMac.

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  • http://twitter.com/ranutso Andre Godoi

    Is the GeForce 680MX exclusive to Apple, for now? I don’t see it anywhere, not even on NVIDIA’s Hardware products page. Any hints on how it compares to 680M? I am really excited to get an iMac with one of those. Finally Apple went back to NVIDIA. I don’t know what took them so long to announce these babies.

  • Sagar Rawal

    Andre, please see the following link: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/geforce-gtx-680mx

    The 27″ iMac is going to be a beast with 1536 CUDA Cores!

  • Marius Bulla

    The GTX 680MX features 1536 Shader Units (same as the desktop GTX 680) instead of 1344 Units which are used in the GTX 680M. I guess that Apple will reduce the clocking of the 680MX a bit, to keep the system cool. I think the new high end 27 inch model will be a screamer anyway.

  • cesar cisneros

    I’m really excited about this machine.  I work as a videographer in Nashville, and Have been waiting for both the new Imac and the decision to go back to Nvidia GPUs.  But I’m mostly hearing about the GeForce 680MX  In regard to Gaming. Does anyone know where I can learn more about the Specifications in regards to working with Adobe Premiere’s Mercury Engine and any 3d animation programs that push their rendering to the GPU i.e. Blender?  Thanks so much.

  • Roman Nasuti

    Those applications are mainly accelerated by openCL and normal CUDA, so it should receive a monumental speed increase.  Only Autodesk Products, some very exclusive Adobe products (probably not Premiere), and other proprietary overpriced 3D CAD software really are specialized for Quadro use.

  • http://twitter.com/ranutso Andre Godoi

    Ahh, there it is! Thank you very much Sagar and Marius for your answers.

  • eden crockett

    Why is the gk 106 not part of the line up? 

    imo gtx 660 is the bang for buck winner.. Odd that this chip is not used in the 21″… I also just read the 10.8.3 has support for radeon 7xxx .. is this a sign of apple switching back to amd possibly with the 2013 mac pros?

  • Thomas Bradley-Hall

    so will the new imac run 3D CAD?, as im about to purchase one and just wondering coz it would be a great help

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=53902419 Laura Millerick

    Testing after upgrades.