3,4 vs 3,2 Ghz worth it?

[Glize]

Hello sadly i have to buy an imac for my girlfriend because she's going to study graphic design, and mac is a standard the question is the next

I have 2 imac in scope , same specs but one with i5 3.2 ghz and other with i5 3.4 ghz the price is 200 eur more , 0.2 ghz worth it? what do you think?

 

[Dylzan]

No, also I'm pretty sure there's going to be other improvements on the more expensive model.

 

[Jak Atackka]

The 3.4GHz model has a much beefier graphics card, which is where most of the $200 is going. What programs will she be using?

 

[Eduello]

The 3.4 GHz version would perform 6.25% better, but I wouldn't say 6.25% is worth 200€ more.

EDIT: Good points in the previous posts about the other hardware.

 

[Glize]

The hardware left is the same 8gb of ram and gt 750m same card same everything just changes the processor , she's going to use Adobe photoshop,Indesign , Illustrator , Dreamweaver.. graphic and web design software the other that have the gtx 775m cost 300eur +, she wont work with 3d so I think a 750 is enough for her.

 

[Eduello]

Yeah, an additional 0.2 GHz is definitely not worth 200€.

 

[Glize]

thank you

 

[Eduello]

No problem

 

[bmacsys]

Yeah, an additional 0.2 GHz is definitely not worth 200€.

As a poster said above, the video card is beefier also.

 

[Glize]

1 gb more of gpu ram isnt necesary for Graphic design imo.. I have been reading about it and most designers says that photoshop etc.. basically use ram and cpu , and if u check adobe suite for graphic designers the minimum requirement doesnt need a dedicated graphic.. so I think that dont worth it,.

 

[bmacsys]

1 gb more of gpu ram isnt necesary for Graphic design imo.. I have been reading about it and most designers says that photoshop etc.. basically use ram and cpu , and if u check adobe suite for graphic designers the minimum requirement doesnt need a dedicated graphic.. so I think that dont worth it,.

Not true at all. If you run out of video memory, say by opening multiple large Photoshop files the GPU has to swap data in and out of system RAM. System memory is much higher latency than just grabbing windows from video memory, and performance suffers appreciably.

 

[Glize]

Finally i made her wait.. new imac at october its better wait and dont buy old technology priced as new