Ill try those commands out for you and see the exact numbers of frames. From looking at it it feels and it seems like its doing above 50+ but ill get you guys the exact number when i play it later on today.
Alright, thanks!!
Ill try those commands out for you and see the exact numbers of frames. From looking at it it feels and it seems like its doing above 50+ but ill get you guys the exact number when i play it later on today.
i've got a 2.93 with 4850 and cod4 installed. how do i do a benchmark test that can be used on barefeats?
also command & conquer 3 if relevant, (which it chews on ultra high settings)
i've got a 2.93 with 4850 and cod4 installed. how do i do a benchmark test that can be used on barefeats?
also command & conquer 3 if relevant, (which it chews on ultra high settings)
barefeats said:If any of you want to run more gaming benchmarks on either an iMac with Radeon 4850 or any other iMac model that might be compared to it, we'd love to share our test procedures and test files with you.
If you have any of the following Mac games and are want to run benchmarks on your iMac, send me a private message:
Call of Duty 4
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Halo
Prey
Quake 4
Doom 3
Unreal Tournament 2004
World of Warcraft
YouTube finally updated my Crysis video with the HD version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9PIR6VGIYo
It's pretty badly shot but it gives some idea of how it runs on the 4850.
One guy commented I should fix the resolution and run in at 720p - anybody else agree?
I'd like to see how the 4850 scores on After Effects CS4 - TotalBenchmark. Looking more at the 2.93GHz model but 3.06GHz would be fine too.
AE CS4 is more CPU bound than GPU bound when it comes to rendering a project. We posted Total Benchmark results here for the iMac 3.06 with GeForce 130GT compared to the previous model with 8800 GS and a few Mac Pros:
http://www.barefeats.com/im09b.html
Regardless, we will repeat the AE test on the 3.06 with Radeon 4850 as soon as ours arrives. (!)
I just tried Left4dead yesterday evening on 2.93 ATI 4850.
All options set to max except antialiasing and full screen 1920*1200. I will try out antialiasing set to max another time.
Welle the result was bloody awesome !![]()
It runs so smooth, almost too fast ! This mac is just trully amazing. I'm enjoying every penny i gave for it !![]()
I just tried Left4dead yesterday evening on 2.93 ATI 4850.
All options set to max except antialiasing and full screen 1920*1200. I will try out antialiasing set to max another time.
Welle the result was bloody awesome !![]()
It runs so smooth, almost too fast ! This mac is just trully amazing. I'm enjoying every penny i gave for it !![]()
CoD4 results at 1920x1200 High:
2.93 iMac with 4850 = 61 fps (sgtbilko28)
3.06 iMac with 130GT = 38 fps (barefeats)
That's a 60% advantage - - similar to what we saw with X-Plane.
And nipping at the heels of the Mac Pro 2.93 with 4870 (64 fps).
CoD4 results at 1920x1200 High:
2.93 iMac with 4850 = 61 fps (sgtbilko28)
3.06 iMac with 130GT = 38 fps (barefeats)
That's a 60% advantage - - similar to what we saw with X-Plane.
And nipping at the heels of the Mac Pro 2.93 with 4870 (64 fps).
AE CS4 is more CPU bound than GPU bound when it comes to rendering a project. We posted Total Benchmark results here for the iMac 3.06 with GeForce 130GT compared to the previous model with 8800 GS and a few Mac Pros:
http://www.barefeats.com/im09b.html
Regardless, we will repeat the AE test on the 3.06 with Radeon 4850 as soon as ours arrives. (!)
I made a video with tests of FarCry 2, Red Alert 3, Crysis and Assassins Creed.
The results are truly amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY7SMMZH-2I
CoD4 results at 1920x1200 High:
2.93 iMac with 4850 = 61 fps (sgtbilko28)
3.06 iMac with 130GT = 38 fps (barefeats)
That's a 60% advantage - - similar to what we saw with X-Plane.
And nipping at the heels of the Mac Pro 2.93 with 4870 (64 fps).
You guys should use the console command to enable framerate in the corner for your Left4Dead testing.... Green is 60+ I believe. Orange and red obviously are worse.
For more perspective on CoD4.....
64 fps = 2.93 Mac Pro (4-core and 8-core) with 4870
61 fps = 2.93 iMac with 4850
45 fps = 2.93 Mac Pro (4-core and 8-core) with 8800 GT (beta 10.5.7 drivers)
38 fps = 3.06 iMac with 130 GT
23 fps = 2.93 Mac Pro (4-core and 8-core) with 120 GT
I use Titan Performance plugin for WoW. It captures min, max, and average frame rates. And it uses the same "green is good, red is bad" color coding.
One baseline test we often do is to enter Narache Village in FireTree realm. We take a Warrior and have him run from the Totem pole at the entrance to the village to the large tree at the top of the hill to the East. Then run back to the totem pole. We've found it's a good baseline test of graphics processor speed.
For example, at 1920x1200, 4x Multisampling, all other parameters at max, we average 59 fps on the iMac with GeForce 130 GT. The Mac Pro 2.93 with Radeon 4870 averages 84 fps in the same scenario. The Mac Pro with 120 GT averages 33 fps.
Of course if you were observing or participating in a raid with lots of spells being cast, the frame rate would drop but, again, we're going for repeatable baseline.