pc games run better on a mac

[bodhi77]

before i get accused of misleading thread titles i'm referring to running games under botcamp, but i've noticed that running resident evil 5 on my imac (2.8ghz, 4gb, 256 graphics) runs much better than on a pc with almost the same specs. maybe it's to do with the better system components or the fact that it's all built by apple rather than a mish-mash of components but it runs flawlessly at 1920x1080 with no lag at all. a similar pc it runs well, but not nearly as well

the games run that well i've postponed my decision to buy an xbox 360 🙂



RE5 is awesome btw, well worth the money

 

[0098386]

That's just some mad fanboyishness going on. Quality of hardware won't make any difference at all, if the Mac version has more video ram, or a cleaner HDD then games will run better.

I play Left4Dead on an x1600 iMac, one of my friends has an x1600 desktop PC that somehow manages to run at a higher resolution without any drop in framerate. I'm also under the impression that given the larger case it's able to overclock more than my iMac without crashing.

 

[Huntn]

My understanding which could be wrong is that they choose a Mac to demo Vista on when it first came out due to consistency in hardware and good performance. Or maybe I'm thinking of something else?

 

[yanquis]

windows applications & OS will often be faster on a mac of same specs because the OS is relatively fresh, unused, & not loaded down. the idea that mac has superior components or better integration or design or whatever as it pertains to raw performance is a myth perpetuated by apple fanboys. = specs means = speed. macs edges in design has nothing to do with how fast their computers will run.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

I think a few years back, the fastest Windows laptop PC World tested was the 17" Macbook Pro running Vista, so the claim is slightly valid. However, it was faster by a something like 2 or 3 points in geekbench, and nothing you would ever be able to notice.

For the most part, it feels faster because you haven't installed anything else and it's a fresh install still.

 

[nullx86]

Personally, Windows does run better on macs. I mean hell, Microsoft demoed Vista on an iMac, so what does that tell you? The hardware is the same if you spec'd a Mac and a PC, its just the way they operate. Mac uses EFI, PC has BIOS. At the same time, there are several different components for PC, where only a handful are for Mac. Think about how drivers are done. Gigabyte, for example, writes their drivers for their products, and has to make a XP, Vista, and now Win7 version. Any company that mkes PC parts has to do that. Apple writes the drivers themselves, which in the long run saves a lot of hassle, because there are only a handful of parts tha go in to Macs, which brings me back to what I said earlier in the post; Windows runs better on Macs. Its not fanboyism, its science.

 

[Rodus]

I have found that XP runs faster on my iMac then on an equivalent specced PC but only cos I use it exclusively for gaming and not doing all the day to day tasks that fill up the registry and I don't download lots of little ad ons that add a performance hit. If I did then I'm sure it would be neck and neck.