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13" MacBook Pro and gaming
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Look up HD 4000 gaming benchmarks, that will give you a general idea. Expect the rMBP performance to be slightly lower due to additional image scaling overhead.
went from my loaded PC gaming rig (i5 2500k, Radeon 6970 2GB etc etc) to a 13" cMBP.
For the most part I can play the same games I used to play. Admittedly I was a little worried about going from a dedicated GPU to an integrated 4000, but it handles itself quite nicely.
Games I have tried out on the Mac:
League of Legends
Diablo 3
Starcraft 2
Bastion
Lord of the Rings Online
The 13" games adequately, don't expect mind blowing fps, but it wasn't a big disappointing going from a fairly high-powered desktop to a much more compact solution.
I have yet to try gaming in bootcamp.
For the most part I can play the same games I used to play. Admittedly I was a little worried about going from a dedicated GPU to an integrated 4000, but it handles itself quite nicely.
Games I have tried out on the Mac:
League of Legends
Diablo 3
Starcraft 2
Bastion
Lord of the Rings Online
The 13" games adequately, don't expect mind blowing fps, but it wasn't a big disappointing going from a fairly high-powered desktop to a much more compact solution.
I have yet to try gaming in bootcamp.
I got World of Warcraft to over 30FPS on my 13 inch retina MBP. I am a very casual gamer, so that works fine for me. But I imagine that hard-core gamers will want a laptop that has a dedicated GPU to max out all the effects. I scaled mine back to the lowest, then went up from there until I arrived at a good balance between performance and prettiness.