iMac 5k r9 m290, how are games?

[jerwin]

Finally-- some real specs to highlight the differences.

http://www.kitguru.net/apple/anton-shilov/apple-makes-imac-with-5k-retina-display-more-affordable/

The affordable Apple iMac 5K (with 5120*2880 screen resolution) is based on a quad-core Intel Core i5 processor with 3.30GHz clock-rate and is equipped with AMD Radeon R9 M290 2GB graphics adapter (Bonaire XTX, 896 stream processors), 8GB of DDR3 memory, 1TB hard drive, two Thunderbolt 2 connectors, four USB 3.0 ports and so on.
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The m290x in my machine has 1280 stream processors. The BTO m295x has 2048 stream processors. The trick is finding a benchmark that translates these technical differences into "real world" data, and some benchmarks-- cinebench, for one, don't really highlight the differences that you might see in the latest generation of games.

 

[MikeArtworks]

Hey guys, just wanted to say that I've happily bought my retina 5k iMac with the M290 (not X) and everything is butter smooth. Love the display, and any game I throw at it works great!

 

[jerwin]

Hey guys, just wanted to say that I've happily bought my retina 5k iMac with the M290 (not X) and everything is butter smooth. Love the display, and any game I throw at it works great!

It's a really nice display, isn't it?

But could you do us a favor and run some benchmarks?



Definitely not a framerate to be proud of, but most games are, at the moment, less complex. The extreme preset is what barefeats seems to use, so it's nice for comparison purposes.

https://unigine.com/products/heaven/download/