I really don't want to get into a prolonged argument over semantics here. Not a huge fan of arguing on an internet forum with anonymous users.
These arguments have been happening since 2006 when Apple went with Intel, and it seems to never end. The point is Apple uses PC parts now, it's not PowerPC anymore. Windows can be installed. You can do whatever you want with it now.
The OP was about letting others know that...yes you can play a modern game that came out 10 days ago on a tiny laptop. Yes it will get hot and yes it may shorten the lifespan of the said machine. It's supposed to be a helpful thread not one to argue over if OS X supports games or not and what a machine that costs over $2,000 is capable of doing (I bought mine $1,800 brand new FYI).
Then 2015 users came out of the woodwork and were disappointed that their AMD GPU's are being throttled by either Apple (highly likely via EFI) or AMD. The M370x is a faster (by the numbers) GPU than the 750m. If it is being throttled there must be a reason.
If you're saying the GPU can't be pushed to it's potential under OS X then you're completely wrong. Load up DaVinci Resolve and run a debayer from RED 6k footage to 2k (Make sure to enable OpenCL/CUDA and watch your computer heat up). And this is under OS X not Windows.
Apple doesn't expose the maximum potential of the GPU like Windows does, anyway (Metal is supposed to change that) but to throttle the damn GPU from 800Mhz to 400Mhz under load is
insane when in fact the previous generation GPU did not do that. Apple obviously cut some corners here and it's pretty self evident. They replied to one of the users in this thread and I'm super glad that happend and super glad that I this thread/my original call to try out a new GPU intensive process on your $2000+ investment made some difference. I hope Apple releases an EFI update to de-throttle the GPU and allow the AMD GPU to function normally. The 750m seems to be doing fine from my tests.
I don't think anyone in this thread bought a rMBP to play games. It's obviously a productive machine, but isn't watching movies/listening to music similar to playing games, anyway? I use it as my daily driver for work. I'm coming from Mac Pros and mobile is fine for me. It's just a rare occasion that there's a chance to play a game, a piece of entertainment that's as gratifying as a movie or a piece of music.
There are also plenty of other computers out there with the same CPU and same GPU and the same chipset.
I really don't see your argument as valid here. You're saying (just like I said, many others as well dating back to when Apple switched to Intel) that people shouldn't do GPU/processor intensive tasks on their rMBP, which is nuts. I use AE all the time and push this machine. It's a monster under the hood. Apple optimized it to keep it cool on idle but that doesn't mean that it won't stretch it's performance. The CPU/GPU temps/fans are all controlled by the EFI. If it can heat up and kick the fans up without freezing, then it means Apple already did a stress test in their labs and it's perfectly fine to push it - that means using pc games as well. It's just a PC motherboard inside, what's the big deal?
Also don't forget there are also OS X games in Steam, bit older ones, but still GPU intensive. There's
Tomb Raider which is a game from 2014 I think, in the App Store. Rage (2013?), Hitman Absolution (2014?)....so how can you say the games there are 10 years old? Are you saying AAA games don't get ported to OS X at the same time their Windows counterparts do? Obviously...because OS X gaming is probably 0.5% of the market share. But that doesn't mean they can't release Fallout 4 right now and optimize it for OS X...
