Really?
LoL isnt a very GPU intensive game.
Curious was CPU utilization really high?
(Hmm)
http://eune.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=444114
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MacBook Air 2013 Gaming Performance (Intel HD 5000)
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Really?
LoL isnt a very GPU intensive game.
Curious was CPU utilization really high?
(Hmm)
http://eune.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=444114
I didn't think it was either but I actually had to turn down from the native res and go to 1280x800 to make it a bit smoother.. and I turned most settings down to lowest and it still looks pretty meh.
Can someone please do the walking dead fps? I'm super pumped for the 400 days expansion pack and I would like to see how it runs on the MBA 2013. i7 or i5.
Thank you Intel and Steve Jobs! No thx to you Tim Cook!!! Tim Cook needs to step up his game!
League of Legends on a Windows Ultrabook based on Ivy Bridge can get 25-30 fps in 1920x1080 High except shadows. It does look like Windows is faster.
Quad Core i7 Game Laptop w/Intel 4000 HD
Just to compare how my 2013 base 11" Air performs to my Sager gaming laptop - I ran the built in benchmark tool in Tomb Raider and set both resolutions to 1366x768, normal quality, turned down anti-aliasing to 2x and turned off SSAO on both machines. My Air averaged just over 30 fps while my Sager with Intel 4000 HD averaged 15 fps. I would say that's a pretty huge improvement from last year's GPU. Keep in mind that my Sager is a Quad core i7, so obviously the CPU doesn't make that much of a difference.
Just to compare how my 2013 base 11" Air performs to my Sager gaming laptop - I ran the built in benchmark tool in Tomb Raider and set both resolutions to 1366x768, normal quality, turned down anti-aliasing to 2x and turned off SSAO on both machines. My Air averaged just over 30 fps while my Sager with Intel 4000 HD averaged 15 fps. I would say that's a pretty huge improvement from last year's GPU. Keep in mind that my Sager is a Quad core i7, so obviously the CPU doesn't make that much of a difference.
I'd like to see MechWarrior: Online. It's free to play but the developer is terrible. Performance fluctuates wildly patch to patch.
The 15-inch rMBP will be considerably better due to its dedicated NVIDIA 650M graphics card; the 13-inch model will be worse due to its integrated HD4000 graphics.
Got my wife a base model, ( I havent decided which one I want yet.)
I installed LoL on it, ran it with high settings and shadows off and my fps was between 29-51. Definitely playable.
Did open activity monitor , then tried running it in a window so that I could check CPU usage and it was maxing out cpu.
So wondering if the i7 would actually run the game better.
I to would love to get some numbers on GW2. That's my latest addiction.
If I can avoid always taking my giant tank sized sager when I work nights. Ill pick up one of the new airs in a heartbeat.
I would also like to see how Guild Wars 2 performs with the Mac OS client as well as in Bootcamp.
GW2 was decently playable on the 2012 macbook air, in low areas with not to many enemies, but during big fights and World vs World with hundreds of players, things got real crazy, real fast.
Civilization V had special focus on Haswell graphics due to Ivy Bridge generation being especially weak. Combination of hardware and software optimizations should allow the HD 5000 be more than 2x faster than on the Ivy Bridge one.
Looks like it may perform 10-20% faster than Ivy Bridge. Probably CPU limited in that game.
I think you will be lucky to get +5 fps with the i7. Although the HD5000 is a lot faster than the HD4000, the GPU is still the bottleneck.
TBH I was thinking about getting the MBA if it can run LoL smoooth and nice - it is a nice portable size so i can easy game with friends and not just via skype... know its not the same as my home pc- 27" iMAC - but would be nice to have a 13" ultra light pc that can run LoL
Not only is the i7 cpu faster, so is the hd5000 by 100mhz compared to i5. Im still waiting for some in depth benchmarks on this before i splash out and buy.
More importantly, are any of you 2013 MBA owners running into bad Wifi problems?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5100655?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5100655?start=0&tstart=0
The MBA runs SC2 on high settings? My 2.3ghz quad i7 MBP kind of struggles to run it on high (30-40FPS) and it has a 1GB radeon 6750M in it. That's interesting.
I usually play the game on low settings when laddering anyway to reduce any potential lag. I was considering selling that machine and buying a MBA for the increased portability and battery life, but I love playing SC2, so that way my big issue.
I usually play the game on low settings when laddering anyway to reduce any potential lag. I was considering selling that machine and buying a MBA for the increased portability and battery life, but I love playing SC2, so that way my big issue.
Woo! Eagerly awaiting your results.
It can run battlefield but on all low settings. I managed to get 20-30 fps on caspian border using all low settings on 1280x800 resolution. It was playable but it did not look pretty, especially when I had my gaming rig right next to it, It would work in a jam on the go, but wouldn't count a great experience.
How is this the more important question in a thread about the GPU?
There is already some discussion about the wifi here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1598232/
And here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1598949/
Thanks for the update! I'll have an i7 MBA on Monday, I'll give it a run too - I suspect BF3 is pretty CPU-heavy, so I wonder how much of a difference it'll make. I wouldn't use it as my go-to machine for BF3, but it could be nice in a pinch.