Comparing the 2023 and 2021 24-inch iMac models, foreign media think that there is "little difference except for the chip".

CTOnews.com November 2 news, three years after the launch of the M1 24-inch iMac, Apple updated the iMac on the 31st of last month, and foreign media macrumors today compared the new 24-inch iMac.

Foreign media said that compared with the 2021 model, Apple only switched to the M3 chip for the 2023 24-inch iMac, and the other upgrades were "very small", so the foreign media thought that there was little difference between the two iMac models. "users who use the 2021 24-inch iMac, if there is no strong performance requirement, there is no need to upgrade the 2023 24-inch iMac."

The main differences between the 2021 iMac and the 2023 iMac are as follows:

2021 24-inch iMac (current e-commerce platform is about 7000 yuan) 2023 24-inch iMac (from 10999 yuan) M1 chip (5nm / N5) 3.20 GhzM3 chip (3nm / N3B) 4.05 Ghz8 core CPU, 7-core or 8-core GPU 8-core CPU, 8-core or 10-core graphics processor-ray tracing-supports AV1-encoded 8GB or 16-GB running memory 8GB, 16 GB or 24 GB running memory 68.25 GB/s memory bandwidth 100 GB/s memory bandwidth WiFi 6WiFi 6e Bluetooth 5.0Bluetooth 5.3 hardware accelerated H.264 and HEVC hardware accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes, ProRes RAW in addition CTOnews.com found that the 2023 24-inch iMac page on Apple's official website has only changed part of the copywriting wording compared to the 2021 iMac 24-inch promotional page, and the overall content remains roughly the same, so it can be seen that Apple's position for this generation of 24-inch iMac is only a minor change of the previous generation.

▲ 2021 iMac 24-inch official website page

▲ 2023 iMac 24-inch official website page

▲ 2021 iMac 24-inch official website page

▲ 2023 iMac 24-inch official website page related reading: "Apple released the new 24-inch iMac: equipped with M3 chip, priced from 10999 yuan."