The Definitive riMac graphics benchmark thread

[dborod]

For comparison purposes, my mid-2011 iMac, 3.4 Ghz i7 with the Radeon 6970M (2GB) gets about 5 frames per second on Unigine Heaven.

 

[AnTaR3s]

Well, going by the info gathered so far, it looks like the M395X doesn't destroy anything, sadly. My i7/295X is coming tomorrow, so I'll be running some actual gaming benchmarks in Windows. I fear it's basically going to be on par with the 680MX, if not slightly slower. :-/

You mean your i7/395x, right? Mine is coming in a week and I also fear that the ATI card will be a disaster. It would be great if you could share your Bootcamp benchmarks in here. Maybe you could even run them today with the 680MX and tell us about the differences.

 

[fruitpunch.ben]

Could be. I hope someone can run them in bootcamp. Looks like OP has a Windows 10 section prepped.

There are some windows benchmarks in this thread, but the settings are all over the place, making comparison impossible. If people will do the tests here with the settings listed above, I will include them.

I would also like to see the 780m from 2013 added to the list (as it's the newest non-AMD card, plus the one I actually have haha).

Done.

Well, going by the info gathered so far, it looks like the M395X doesn't destroy anything, sadly. My i7/295X is coming tomorrow, so I'll be running some actual gaming benchmarks in Windows. I fear it's basically going to be on par with the 680MX, if not slightly slower. :-/

If you did mean 395X, yes, I suspect the 395X is not going to be much better than the 295X (and possibly not much better than a 680M because it has to drive so many more pixels). Apple's aim is not to get great 4K gaming happening, just to drive the 5K pixels plus get enough extra graphics for pros and some games. Year on year improvement is very unlikely to be enough to justify an upgrade.

There are rumours, however, that the 395X does not throttle aggressively like the 295X did, if that is true, that could see quite an improvement in intensive games and/or pro apps

 

[mjohansen]

My benchmark

 

[Nirurin]

Here is OSX Cinebench 15.

Imac late 2013, i7, 780m 4gb, with 24gb of ram. Done on OSX.

I ran the test 3 times, and got 77, 73 and then 75. So I stuck with the 75. I did have a bunch of browser windows open in the background still because I'm downloading Unigine still, so I dunno if that effected anything. I'll try it again later and repost if it is any different.

Still, the 780 is pretty much halfway between the 680 and the 295, which is where you'd expect it to be.

And here is my heaven benchmark, same machine on OSX (obviously).

Seems to be much the same as the previous guys 780m.

 

[Nirurin]

Actually here is a re-run of cinebench without a bunch of browser stuff in the background, and it's actually 87fps. So the 780 score is way better than the 680 (on this particular test).

But on heaven its slightly lower.

 

[RageDaddy]

@ Tonymac, hackguys are getting these with desktop GPU's...

http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/147037-post-os-x-cinebench-cpu-graphics-benchmarks.html

 

[SBruv]

You mean your i7/395x, right? Mine is coming in a week and I also fear that the ATI card will be a disaster. It would be great if you could share your Bootcamp benchmarks in here. Maybe you could even run them today with the 680MX and tell us about the differences.

Yep, the i7/395X. I've done some 680 benchies already. Here's Company of Heroes 2 (settings shown first), then Battlefield 4 on Ultra:

 

[SBruv]

There are some windows benchmarks in this thread, but the settings are all over the place, making comparison impossible. If people will do the tests here with the settings listed above, I will include them.



Done.



If you did mean 395X, yes, I suspect the 395X is not going to be much better than the 295X (and possibly not much better than a 680M because it has to drive so many more pixels). Apple's aim is not to get great 4K gaming happening, just to drive the 5K pixels plus get enough extra graphics for pros and some games. Year on year improvement is very unlikely to be enough to justify an upgrade.

There are rumours, however, that the 395X does not throttle aggressively like the 295X did, if that is true, that could see quite an improvement in intensive games and/or pro apps

Oops – yes, I mean the 395X! Will edit…

 

[Fl0r!an]

@ Tonymac, hackguys are getting these with desktop GPU's...

http://www.tonymacx86.com/graphics/147037-post-os-x-cinebench-cpu-graphics-benchmarks.html

Cinebench OpenGL Benchmark is not meaningful at all. The numbers it shows have nothing to do with the real world GPU performance.

 

[jerwin]

For what it's worth...

MacOSX is kind of lacking in the 3d drivers department...

 

[samcow]

Why is tessellation being disabled?

 

[Nirurin]

Here is my 780m i7 24gb ram one, on windows bootcamp unigine.

I couldnt get the newest drivers cos the geforce experience program doesnt seem to want to download drivers anymore..

 

[jerwin]

Why is tessellation being disabled?

Because that's what we agreed on.

 

[samcow]

Because that's what we agreed on.

Where was that discussed or agreed upon, and what arguments support that as a choice?

 

[Nirurin]

Where was that discussed or agreed upon, and what arguments support that as a choice?

I assume because it was more important for everyone to give a consistent result from the same settings across all the formats. Not sure why you are wanting tesselate to be on, its not a feature I've even heard of before. Anti-aliasing would be much more common.

But you're the only person to have complained... any reason why?

 

[Alesc]

Yeh probably if the programs are free, I've not actually tried before.

I'll try and get the benchmark things for OSX in a minute, and also do it on bootcamp tonight. I'll keep you updated

Thanks a lot for your tests

 

[Alesc]

iMac late 2013, GTX 780M, Core i7 4771 3.5GHz

Heaven, Mac OS X, OpenGL

CineBench, Mac OS X

Heaven, Windows 8.1, DX11

 

[Moriske]

http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/macintosh/entry-28221.html

 

[samcow]

I assume because it was more important for everyone to give a consistent result from the same settings across all the formats. Not sure why you are wanting tesselate to be on, its not a feature I've even heard of before. Anti-aliasing would be much more common.

But you're the only person to have complained... any reason why?

Well my understanding is that the Heaven benchmark was created in part to test tessellation, so it seems odd to turn this off. Also newer cards might fare better with the feature turned on

 

[turbineseaplane]

Just for comparison, adding my Hack w/ 980Ti

I would love to have a 5k iMac, but the lack of better GPU's continues to stop the idea in its tracks for me.

Unigine:
Have done it twice and selected 2560x1440 each time...ended up with 2560x1350 - Not sure what's up. Maybe my LG 31.5" screen and it's odd aspect ratio is throwing it off when I do full screen. Oh well. Just another data point.

 

[tillsbury]

Old 2014 maxed-out rimac, (i7 4GHz/295x). Ran it through a couple of times to get the GPU up to temperature and then benchmarked when it was stable, with the fans very slightly on and the temperature steady at 99. Surprised you haven't had one of these on here yet. I only bothered doing this because I was surprised the 295X beat the 395X at Cinebench just slightly. Same results with Heaven:

 

[jerwin]

Regarding the nVidia 980, you wouldn't happen to know if the minimum framerate tanks immediately after the "darkened passageway lit by torches" scene, would you?

 

[cynics]

I'm not sure this of any relevance here or if it will make things more convoluted but...

2013 iMac i5 3.4 775m 2gb tested in OS X El Capitan only (I don't use windows sorry). Max GPU temp of 82c...




Those i7 scores make me jealous especially considering how much video I encode.

 

[Nirurin]

I'm not sure this of any relevance here or if it will make things more convoluted but...

2013 iMac i5 3.4 775m 2gb tested in OS X El Capitan only (I don't use windows sorry). Max GPU temp of 82c...

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Those i7 scores make me jealous especially considering how much video I encode.

weirdly, your 775 unigine score is higher than the 780 scores??

and it cant be due to any throttling/heat issue, cos my 780 never got over 80c during the test.