In addition to today’s reveal of the 21.5-inch 4K iMac, Apple has made significant upgrades to the 27-inch iMac 5K. The new model has the same resolution screen, but now with the same larger P3 color gamut on the 4K iMac. Furthermore, the new large-screen model skips the fifth generation of Intel processors and brings the new “Skylake” quad-core CPU to the line.
Processor options for the new model of 5K iMac start with the 3.2Ghz quad-core i5 processor, with a 3.3Ghz quad-core i5 and 4.0GHz quad-core i7 processors as options. GPU options for the 5K iMac are all Radeon R9 based, with the M380 with 2GB VRAM through the M395X with 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM available at purchase. Connectivity options remain the same, with two Thunderbolt 2 ports, a SDHC slot, four USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi.
Both the 4K iMac and the newly updated 5K iMac come with the new Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse. The new Magic Trackpad 2 with Force Touch is optional.
The baseline 5K iMac ships with a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive. Upgrade options are a 1TB drive with 24GB of flash, or 2TB and 3TB fusion drives with 128GB of flash storage. Also available are 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB SSDs. The new flash storage reaches speeds of 2GB/s. The RAM is faster than the previous generation at 1867MHz and starts at 8GB. As opposed to the 4K iMac, RAM is user-upgradeable to 32GB.
Three configurations of the new 27-inch 5K iMac are available today, starting at $1799.
