Best new Mac for After Effects

I am a composer who works with After Effects and am in the market for a new computer. I'm trying to decide between an iMac (3.5 GHz quad-core i7, 8 to 32 GB of RAM, 3 TB Drive, NVIDIA GTX 780 M 4 GB GDDR5 Fusion) and a Mac Pro (3.7 GHz quad core, 12 to 64 GB of RAM, 256 GB to 1 TB of storage flash and Dual AMD over-pants D300 with 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM GPU each/D500/D700-3 GB 6 GB). I was expecting some tips on the Mac Pro is worth the additional investment for After Effects - the software will take advantage of the extra power, or an iMac will be sufficient?

After Effects is a program of CPU load and memory. The MacPro is faster, more scalable and more capable in all directions over the long term. Take any money you can save on the GPU and spend it on ram, buy some storage external thunderbolt, a table if you can afford it. External storage is a good idea for any system. The iMac will be a GPU capable or traced to the given radius, but it is a very slight advantage for a very limited type of project that will be of little benefit in the grand scheme of things.

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