iMac: Prices, Benchmarks and Buy Now or Wait

1 product · Updated October 19, 2026 · Tick two to four to compare

Wait iMac 724days since update

Past the usual gap between updates: one is due. Last updated October 28, 2024, iMac 24-inch (M4); the last 4 updates came every 512 days on average. Next: An iMac with the M6 chip, expected to be announced around 27-28 October and released Friday, 6 November 2026. (MacRumors, citing Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, 2026-10-18)

	Product	Price	Geekbench 7 CPUSingle-core · points	Geekbench 7 CPUMulti-core · points	Geekbench 7 GPUMetal · points	Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama)tg128 Llama 2 7B Q4_0 · tok/s	Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama)pp512 Llama 2 7B Q4_0 · tok/s	Blender Benchmarksamples/min	Buy
	iMac M4	$1,499 launch price	3,170	13,445	47,323	24.1	221	1,196	Best Buy Amazon

Each column is one publication's results, so the figures compare on the same test system: Geekbench 7 CPU Single-core: Geekbench Browser; Geekbench 7 CPU Multi-core: Geekbench Browser; Geekbench 7 GPU Metal: Geekbench Browser; Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama) tg128 Llama 2 7B Q4_0: llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub); Local LLM (llama.cpp / Ollama) pp512 Llama 2 7B Q4_0: llama.cpp community benchmarks (GitHub); Blender Benchmark : Blender Open Data. † from another publication's test system. Prices are Best Buy's, checked within the last day, else the launch price. Every figure's page and date is on the product's page.

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