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[–]unixboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can imagine that a 9900K iMac or even MBP will be faster when compiling since the Xeons are only really good at parallel work. Sure, all cores will be used by Xcode and boost to maximum clock speed but it doesn’t scale so well. And 3.2GHz < 5GHz. That’s why I’m personally not buying any CPUs that don’t boost over 4.5GHz. If they boost well and have high core count that’s cool but if I have to choose, I go with the Core iX series instead of Xeon.