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Do you need 512MB VRAM or is 256MB enough? Test results.
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well starcraft II have a replay funktion if that could help anything
very good idea!
Yeah but how would you get an average frame rate?
Also, he'll need a beta key to watch the replays.
Well yeah, but cracked versions are always buggy. I wouldn't rely on a cracked version for a benchmark.
I've been running timedemos with Portal on Steam beta.
Anything higher than 1440x900on the MacBook Pro Core i5 with 256M VRAM and the avg FPS drop to unplayable (10-12 fps). That's at "recommended" medium quality settings.
The MacBook Pro Core i7 with 512M VRAM kept cranking along at 30+ FPS even at 1920x1200, max settings, 4X multisampling, and 8X Aniso.
Anything higher than 1440x900on the MacBook Pro Core i5 with 256M VRAM and the avg FPS drop to unplayable (10-12 fps). That's at "recommended" medium quality settings.
The MacBook Pro Core i7 with 512M VRAM kept cranking along at 30+ FPS even at 1920x1200, max settings, 4X multisampling, and 8X Aniso.
That's quite telling.
Are you going to revise your original conclusion about 256 vs 512? It seems that large a difference is probably not due to the relatively smaller increase in CPU speed between the i5 and i7...
