Poor Graphic Performance after Upgrade to 10.8

Hello,

It depends on the apps. Here are the results for quite a few popular apps.

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

Loa

Can't believe you upgraded them so soon. All my fleet are still on 10.6.8. Kudos.

Loa said:

Hello,

It depends on the apps. Here are the results for quite a few popular apps.

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

Loa

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I was going to upgrade my new3.06 12 core today, but not after reading this. The Mac Pro's have such average graphics performance when compared to Windows machines, that I try to hold onto as many frames as I can. This performance should improve right? Does Mt. Lion have any new 7970 graphics drivers? Will we ever see Apple blessed high performance cards on this aging dinosaur?

tony3d said:

Will we ever see Apple blessed high performance cards on this aging dinosaur?

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Yes, right now if you go with Nvidia GTX 670/680. It's not exactly "blessed" by Apple, but the basic drivers are in 10.8, enabling CUDA is now a snap, and OpenCl isn't too hard to get going.

Loa said:

Hello,

It depends on the apps. Here are the results for quite a few popular apps.

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

Loa

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Hi Loa,

I was wondering what settings Barefeats are using in their Heaven 3 bench?
I ran it today at 1440x900 windowed and got 63.4 fps so I assume I am not using the same settings. Do you know what I'm missing?

Update: The only thing I could see different to Barefeats benching was fullscreen instead of windowed so I ran it again full screen, not much difference tbh. So I can gather that ML has a 16 fps improvement over SL (which I'm using) or would the difference between my MP 3,1 octo and their testbed 5,1 hex be a more significant cause of the increase in performance?

gpzjock said:

Do you know what I'm missing?

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I don't know anything about Heaven 3, so I don't know if the CPU (or RAM) has any great effect. Try messing with the settings. If you just can't match those from barefeats, then the CPU must have a significant effect.

Loa

Sad

Loa said:

Hello,

It depends on the apps. Here are the results for quite a few popular apps.

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

Loa

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THIS is just SAD! I mean WTF MAN?

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I have heard this form, soo many people! Most who have upgraded form 10.6 wish they hadn't

rantingrich said:

THIS is just SAD! I mean WTF MAN?

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I have heard this form, soo many people! Most who have upgraded form 10.6 wish they hadn't

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To be fair I would expect any 10.x.0 build to be a bit rubbish until the bug fix patch 10.x.1 is released. As a rule I never adopt new OS releases until a later version having had previous experience of crunchy drivers. I didn't go to Snowy from Leopard till 10.6.2 was released. I would advise any migration to Mountain Moggy be delayed a bit too, if you are concerned by performance glitches.