two multiplayer game benchmarks
So I’d though I’d add my brief experience with my new iMac, 27, i7, 680mx. Ive had the computer two weeks, love games, playing in Windows 7, 64 bit. I was very surprised with everyones reported high frame rates and high quality settings but then I realized you’re all playing the single player campaigns, multiplayer is where the rubber meets the road. So I played a few online games (will play more later on) and thought it might be interesting to report my benchmarks. These are with the latest drivers in Windows.
First here are two system benchmarks.
Heaven benchmark: Same settings in both OS’s. 1920 x 1080 fullscreen, quality high.
OS 10.8.3: Average FPS: 41.0, score 1034, min FPS: 11.9, Max FPS: 91.4.
Windows 7: Average FPS: 40.5, score 1021, min FPS: 22, Max FPS: 88.
Cinebench:
OS 10.8.3: GPU 43.7, CPU 7.5
Windows 7: GPU 53.71, CPU 7.42
Online games I’ve only played two, I can report more later on when I get to them, but for starters I was playing COD Black Ops. (the 2010 game) on Windows 7, not the Mac addition.
Initially I tried playing with everything set to the highest settings, but there was a noticeable drop in frame rates that affected gameplay. So initially I dropped the resolution down from native to 1920 x 1080 ands that smoothed things out but didn’t look as pretty. So then I experimented on lowering a few settings, and that seemed to work. I ran Fraps to benchmark the frame rates.
COD:BO: 2560 x 1440, AA x8 (goes to 16), Bilinear texture filtering (goes to Trileanear) Texture quality set to High (can go to Ultra) The average FPS was 59, minimum was 53 (very briefly) and the max was 62.
I will tell you that unlike other games I’ve played, even a frame rate of 53 made a big difference in how quick I could react. I’ve played games where the frame rates were in the 30’s which felt “smoother” than COD:BO did at 53.
DayZ, the mod for Arma 2. This game was was a nightmare on my previous system, Mac Pro 2006 1,1, with a Radeon 5770. There are two main cities, Cherno and Electro, and when my character would be in one of those cities and the sever would reach around 25 people people (most servers can handle 40 and some go as high as 50.) My frame rate would drop to 5 frames per second. That is unplayable. So with the new iMac, on a server with 30 people my average frame rate was in the low 50’s, min about 45. Huge difference. So in DayZ I’ve gone from always being killed to rarely being killed, nice. And as a comparison to COD:BO, DayZ felt smoother when it dropped to 45 than COD felt at 55. Interesting.
So I’d though I’d add my brief experience with my new iMac, 27, i7, 680mx. Ive had the computer two weeks, love games, playing in Windows 7, 64 bit. I was very surprised with everyones reported high frame rates and high quality settings but then I realized you’re all playing the single player campaigns, multiplayer is where the rubber meets the road. So I played a few online games (will play more later on) and thought it might be interesting to report my benchmarks. These are with the latest drivers in Windows.
First here are two system benchmarks.
Heaven benchmark: Same settings in both OS’s. 1920 x 1080 fullscreen, quality high.
OS 10.8.3: Average FPS: 41.0, score 1034, min FPS: 11.9, Max FPS: 91.4.
Windows 7: Average FPS: 40.5, score 1021, min FPS: 22, Max FPS: 88.
Cinebench:
OS 10.8.3: GPU 43.7, CPU 7.5
Windows 7: GPU 53.71, CPU 7.42
Online games I’ve only played two, I can report more later on when I get to them, but for starters I was playing COD Black Ops. (the 2010 game) on Windows 7, not the Mac addition.
Initially I tried playing with everything set to the highest settings, but there was a noticeable drop in frame rates that affected gameplay. So initially I dropped the resolution down from native to 1920 x 1080 ands that smoothed things out but didn’t look as pretty. So then I experimented on lowering a few settings, and that seemed to work. I ran Fraps to benchmark the frame rates.
COD:BO: 2560 x 1440, AA x8 (goes to 16), Bilinear texture filtering (goes to Trileanear) Texture quality set to High (can go to Ultra) The average FPS was 59, minimum was 53 (very briefly) and the max was 62.
I will tell you that unlike other games I’ve played, even a frame rate of 53 made a big difference in how quick I could react. I’ve played games where the frame rates were in the 30’s which felt “smoother” than COD:BO did at 53.
DayZ, the mod for Arma 2. This game was was a nightmare on my previous system, Mac Pro 2006 1,1, with a Radeon 5770. There are two main cities, Cherno and Electro, and when my character would be in one of those cities and the sever would reach around 25 people people (most servers can handle 40 and some go as high as 50.) My frame rate would drop to 5 frames per second. That is unplayable. So with the new iMac, on a server with 30 people my average frame rate was in the low 50’s, min about 45. Huge difference. So in DayZ I’ve gone from always being killed to rarely being killed, nice. And as a comparison to COD:BO, DayZ felt smoother when it dropped to 45 than COD felt at 55. Interesting.
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