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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
iMac 21.5 vs Mac mini (2013)
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<blockquote data-quote="Adric" data-source="post: 1498569" data-attributes="member: 245480"><p>To answer your original question, no. A dedicated graphics card will not help your CPU focus on other things. Integrated graphics (what the Mac mini uses) indeed has the CPU processing the graphics but it's all processed on cores separate from what the general processing is done on. Adding a graphics card will not allow the CPU to become a better processor for general calculations. </p><p></p><p>Dedicated graphics cards such as those in the iMac ARE however leaps and bounds better performance-wise than those few little dedicated cores on the CPU so any graphics tasks you do (this includes things like youtube) will play back much smoother. Playing modern 3D games is almost impossible without a graphics card.</p><p></p><p>If you ever decide to put music to video (film scoring), the graphics card in the iMac will help the video play back smooth while you lay down your tracks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Adric, post: 1498569, member: 245480"] To answer your original question, no. A dedicated graphics card will not help your CPU focus on other things. Integrated graphics (what the Mac mini uses) indeed has the CPU processing the graphics but it's all processed on cores separate from what the general processing is done on. Adding a graphics card will not allow the CPU to become a better processor for general calculations. Dedicated graphics cards such as those in the iMac ARE however leaps and bounds better performance-wise than those few little dedicated cores on the CPU so any graphics tasks you do (this includes things like youtube) will play back much smoother. Playing modern 3D games is almost impossible without a graphics card. If you ever decide to put music to video (film scoring), the graphics card in the iMac will help the video play back smooth while you lay down your tracks. [/QUOTE]
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