Could someone tell more how the Iris graphics on the retina Pro's compare with other GPU's as well as the overall Gflops. Thanks It's my first Macbook
He is talking about the Iris not the Iris Pro. There are other threads. Short story it is quite a bit behind an Iris Pro and a 650M in any configuration but it is quite good for an iGPU with that battery life.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Graphics-5100.91977.0.html
Click on the compare links to show it in relation to other cards at that level.
It is described at almost 640M performance in best case scenarios and about 620M performance in other cases. It is really limited by bandwitdh and clock speeds, the peak FLOPS mean absolutely nothing for its performance.
Will it be able to run GTA San Andreas, Dirt 2, Grid, Cod 4 max settings?
Max settings would be full res with 16X AA etc. Would barely run on most of those games. 1366 x 768 at medium? Sure.
You don't need any AA with a display of that density. And I think you are overestimating these games. They are all at least 4 years old. They should run just fine at 1680x1050 and high settings. Maybe even native resolution. Note: I am talking about Windows version of the games. The OS X ones will be slower, but still pretty much playable at high settings.
Iris sounds surprisingly weak compared to the 5000 in the MBA.
Came across this review on the 2013 MBA w/ an i7:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/core-i7-macbook-air-2013
It scored a 27.5 on Cinebench OpenGL! The rMBPs score a 20-21 on Cinebench OpenGL according to Macworld, which is about the same as the i5 MBA:
http://www.macworld.com/article/205...-boost-to-new-13-inch-retina-macbook-pro.html
Why is Iris doing so poorly in the benchmarks? Isn't the 5100 supposed to be better than the 5000?
Iris sounds surprisingly weak compared to the 5000 in the MBA.
Came across this review on the 2013 MBA w/ an i7:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/core-i7-macbook-air-2013
It scored a 27.5 on Cinebench OpenGL! The rMBPs score a 20-21 on Cinebench OpenGL according to Macworld, which is about the same as the i5 MBA:
http://www.macworld.com/article/205...-boost-to-new-13-inch-retina-macbook-pro.html
Why is Iris doing so poorly in the benchmarks? Isn't the 5100 supposed to be better than the 5000?