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xanadux

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Original poster
Oct 24, 2014
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Yesterday I ran into my local Apple Store to check out the newest riMac, and I tried to run the HTML5 Fish Bowl test (http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/performance/fishbowl/) on that base model riMac (i5, m290).

When set to 2000 fishes, fps drops to an average of 20 (remained at 16 for a lot of times).
When set to 250 fishes, fps drops to an average of 30 (around 20+ for the most of the time).
Comparing to the normal iMac 27', it seems that the normal iMac 27' beats the riMac in this test. It generally has higher fps.
Comparing to my home PC, which has i3 3225/GTX 650 Ti, dual Dell 2412M, my PC starts to drop frames after 1000 fishes with a bunch of programs and Hearthstone running on background.

I am not a hardcore tech guy, so I did not know how meaningful this is, but I just want to share this piece of information with you guys.
 
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curtoise

macrumors 6502a
Apr 19, 2010
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I'm not sure how accurate is that test as i just tested on my 2013 rMBP is showing 30fps on 2000 fish and 60 fps on 1000 all the time.

The new 5k iMac should be much more powerful.
 

theSeb

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Aug 10, 2010
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I love these "benchmarks" that MS came up with to try and prove how fast the latest IE's HTML5 performance is, since the previous versions had the honour of being the slowest browsers around.

These sort of things are best ignored.
 

newbish

macrumors member
Oct 25, 2014
35
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no problem at all! note my second reply that it is the m295x version, also i ran it with safari on 10.10 :)
 

Chippy99

macrumors 6502a
Apr 28, 2012
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Hmmmm. Interesting.

A late 2012 imac (i7 + 680MX) scores:

Safari 8.0
2000 fish = 46fps
1750 fish = 60fps
1500 fish = 60fps

Chrome
2000 fish = 60fps
1750 fish = 60fps
1500 fish = 60fps

Firefox
10 fish = 17fps
100 fish = 10fps
1000 fish = 6fps

Bit of a problem with Firefox obviously!?!??!?
 

newbish

macrumors member
Oct 25, 2014
35
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btw if anyone is interested, i edited my local session page to accept 2500 and 3000 fishes.

2500 fishes: 50FPS
3000 fishes: 35FPS

edit: tested it on base model.. i5, m290x, 8gb, fusion drive 1tb and it is still 60FPS at 2000 fishes? ran from safari.

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