Barefeats updated: 128MB vram vs 256MB

[James L]

Hey all,

Barefeats has updated their benchmarks with the new 2.2 SR MBP.

http://www.barefeats.com/rosa03.html

Not sure if it has been posted or not.

[Mr.Pibb]

Looks good, im satisified with 128. :)

[QCassidy352]

confirming my suspicion that the 2.2 is the right buy. :)

[dmw007]

So the 15" 2.4GHz MacBook Pro is only about 5-9% faster than the 15" 2.2GHz MacBook Pro. :)

I would like to see the difference for more than just gaming though... :)

[BlizzardBomb]

So the 15" 2.4GHz MacBook Pro is only about 5-9% faster than the 15" 2.2GHz MacBook Pro. :)

I would like to see the difference for more than just gaming though... :)

It's roughly the same... (http://www.macworld.com/2007/06/firstlooks/mbpbench/index.php)

[Evangelion]

I would like to see more benchmarks from more demanding apps. Like Prey or some Windows-games maybe?

[Erasmus]

Check back on barefeats now. They ran Prey on very high settings, although on a very small resolution, and got some interesting OSX vs XP results. Apparently 37 fps in OSX, but 73 fps on XP. That's double. And that's high enough to suggest that Prey would be perfectly playable on at least the 15" native res on highest graphics settings with 4xAA and 4xAF.

[Illicit]

Check back on barefeats now. They ran Prey on very high settings, although on a very small resolution, and got some interesting OSX vs XP results. Apparently 37 fps in OSX, but 73 fps on XP. That's double. And that's high enough to suggest that Prey would be perfectly playable on at least the 15" native res on highest graphics settings with 4xAA and 4xAF.
It was to my understanding that the game was tested using the same mbp, but once while running XP and another while running OSX.
so this isn't relevant in terms of comparing 128vram vs 256vram.

[Erasmus]

It was to my understanding that the game was tested using the same mbp, but once while running XP and another while running OSX.
so this isn't relevant in terms of comparing 128vram vs 256vram.

Its not. But it is interesting.

And suggests that the 8600M GT is great, and that performance in OSX really is driver limited, and not hardware limited.

And suggests that even the 128MB version should be more than capable of playing something like Prey very well.

[booksacool1]

And suggests that even the 128MB version should be more than capable of playing something like Prey very well.

Yeah I agree, but the benchmarking is pretty crappy. Why?

Well Prey is the doom3 engine. As is doom 3 and quake 4. Why bother testing all three? Besides, everyone knows you can get the doom 3 engine almost on max on any modern nvidia card.
And UT2004 runs great on my fx5200... wow.

Barefeats needs to test using a modern game which actually pushes the memory with huge textures, high AA settings etc. Maybe Oblivion, NWN2, STALKER, Supreme Commander etc. They'll show a difference with the extra 128mbytes.

[Erasmus]

Yeah I agree, but the benchmarking is pretty crappy. Why?

Well Prey is the doom3 engine. As is doom 3 and quake 4. Why bother testing all three? Besides, everyone knows you can get the doom 3 engine almost on max on any modern nvidia card.
And UT2004 runs great on my fx5200... wow.

Barefeats needs to test using a modern game which actually pushes the memory with huge textures, high AA settings etc. Maybe Oblivion, NWN2, STALKER, Supreme Commander etc. They'll show a difference with the extra 128mbytes.

Oh. I didn't know Prey used the Doom 3 engine. That sucks.

I agree we need more Oblivion scores. In bootcamp. (not that there's much choice, but the point has to be made)