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High-End riMac Gaming Performance

bumfluff

bumfluff

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consistently good results at full-res with my maxed riMac, no stutters or refresh problems at all even playing 3v3 and into the late game (SC2), fps average was 29 (26 under heavy load).

fully spec'ed i7, 32gb, 1tb ssd, and 295x

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bumfluff said:
consistently good results at full-res with my maxed riMac, even playing 3v3 and into the late game (SC2), fps average was 29 (26 under heavy load).

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that's really impressive at full retina resolution with all the eye candy turned on. can you run at 1440 with the same ultra detail settings?
 
I'm guessing Starcraft 2.

Any chance of running the Heaven and Valley benchmarks?
 
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Just popped mine open, went straight to WoW :)

Still downloading through streaming client, getting 26-32 FPS in the Alliance Shrine full of folks @ 5120x2880 with full Ultra settings.

Kicking it down to 2560x1440 nets ~75FPS @ Ultra settings.

4Ghz, 8GB of RAM (iMac came before the 3rd party memory did!) 1TB SSD, m295x.

So far, pretty impressed!
 
Unfair said:
Just popped mine open, went straight to WoW :)

Still downloading through streaming client, getting 26-32 FPS in the Alliance Shrine full of folks @ 5120x2880 with full Ultra settings.

Kicking it down to 2560x1440 nets ~75FPS @ Ultra settings.

4Ghz, 8GB of RAM (iMac came before the 3rd party memory did!) 1TB SSD, m295x.

So far, pretty impressed!
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Somebody please benchmark the M295X with Heaven and Valley.

https://unigine.com/products/valley/
https://unigine.com/products/heaven/
 
So how is the iMac so far, is it mindblowing, or just slightly better. How does gaming on it look?
 
Yes it has to give you the score. Take the standard settings and run benchmarks.

And BTW. That SC2 was Hearth of The Swarm or Wings of Liberty?
 
esphil said:
So how is the iMac so far, is it mindblowing, or just slightly better. How does gaming on it look?
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having never been able to "max" out settings on a game, this machine is way past mind-blowing

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koyoot said:
Yes it has to give you the score. Take the standard settings and run benchmarks.

And BTW. That SC2 was Hearth of The Swarm or Wings of Liberty?
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bumfluff said:
having never been able to "max" out settings on a game, this machine is way past mind-blowing

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Can you run it on ultra settings in 1080p resolution?

We can compare how faster will be M295X from M290X.

Apart from the fact, that SC2 was tested in windows, with better GPU drivers...
 
bumfluff said:
im having some issues with my internet i only was able to download "Valley", report and settings below

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Hey, thanks Bumfluff!

I think you're the first person to post GPU benchmarks... anywhere!

On Valley, under Preset select Extreme HD and if you have time also run the Extreme preset. It would be most useful if you could get Heaven and run the Extreme preset then we could make a direct comparison to the 780M.

Thanks for your help so far!
 
bumfluff said:
im having some issues with my internet i only was able to download "Valley", report and settings below

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Thanks very much for doing this. Could I be a pain and ask you to instead of choosing your own settings, choose Extreme HD from the presets list and run the test like that, so that it's easier for us to compare?

How was the noise of the fans when running games and the benchmarks?
 
This is what I get from my 2011 iMac...
 

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These are scores are nearly impossible to compare if you're using custom presets. Could you change to Extreme HD and run again and then we can all compare?
 
theSeb said:
Thanks very much for doing this. Could I be a pain and ask you to instead of choosing your own settings, choose Extreme HD from the presets list and run the test like that, so that it's easier for us to compare?

How was the noise of the fans when running games and the benchmarks?
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jesus you guys are annoying...hahaha...totally kidding

i didn't hear anything as far fan noise for any of these benchmarks

extremeHD below:

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Brilliant. Thanks so much. Do you have anything like iStatMenus installed to see the GPU/CPU temperature graphs? lol, now I am starting to annoy myself.
 
bumfluff said:
jesus you guys are annoying...hahaha...totally kidding

i didn't hear anything as far fan noise for any of these benchmarks

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Damn, i dunno how osx compares to windows in this particular test but if its somewhat the same scale, this blows...... my gtx 970 gets around 3000 with the extremeHD test :apple: guess im going hackintosh for now
 
That's insane. Looks so far like anyone maintaining that macs are no good for gaming might have to go a little quiet...

I was not expecting you to be able to put any sort of game up at 5k with anything but stop-motion effects resulting... Obviously most people are going to be gaming at 1440p max, and the frame rates there are excellent.
 
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