( RED bar indicates the fastest at each resolution.)īlizzard Starcraft 2 was tested using a replay of a Roundabout War multiplayer session. Advanced Video Settings included: MSAA 4x, Anisotropic 8x, Vertical Sync DISABLED, Shader Detail VERY HIGH, Effect Detail HIGH, Model/Texture Detail HIGH. Wind7 = Windows 7 OS with latest AMD GPU driversĪnother Steam title is Left 4 Dead 2. IMac 3.4 = 'mid 2011' iMac 3.4GHz Core i7 with Radeon HD 6970M (2G) Mac Pro 3.3 = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 3.33GHz 6-Core Westmere with Radeon HD 5870 (1G) ( RED bar indicates the fastest at each resolution.) Steam Portal 2 was tested with these advanced Video settings: 4x MSAA, Anisotropic 8x, Vertical Sync DISABLED, Multicore Rendering ENABLED, Shader Detail VERY HIGH, Effect Detail HIGH, Model/Texture Detail HIGH. So has the gap closed in 2011? We compared four games running under OS X and Windows 7 on both the 2010 Mac Pro 6-core and 2011 iMac 4-core. Many hard core gamers love their OS X and Mac but 'Boot Camp' their way into Windows to gain better game performance. One frustration of Mac users is the historic gap in gaming performance compared to Windows. Posted Friday, May 20th, 2011, by rob-ART morgan, mad scientistĪt 9AM on May 20th, updated WoW graph with 4x MSAA results
