Red Camera 6k Footage System Requirements

Hello All,
I am helping out a friend edit a 30 second spot and have never worked with Red 6k footage before and want to make sure my iMac can handle the footage.
I have 16 GB of Ram, AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB and 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7. Will this do the trick or will it be more trouble then what its worth?
Thanks
J

It's hard to say for sure without trying it since performance (especially for things like playing 4k Red files) can be a finicky thing.
But the specs look as good or better all around on the new macbook, especially for the display card, so I suspect you'll see some significant performance gains. Also your thunderbolt drive will be faster from that end (that's less of a factor though).

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