Gaming benchmarks and cores

[anticipate]

Are you getting the D300 or D500?

I got the D700. In single GPU, Open GL kind of performance (e.g. Uniengine Valley benchmark), it performs the same as the 680MX in my iMac when on native 27" panel res and ultra/4xaa. Within a few percentage points. That was surprising. (That's good but not great.)

Go to Windows where you get Crossfire and two cards in use and it doubles. Or using OpenCL under Mac it can double too.

For Mac gaming, it's nothing special. But Apple chose these chips for compute; AMD is stronger under OpenCL than Nvidia (though Nvidia is vice versa under CUDA vs OpenCL.)

 

[apolloa]

All gpu's can run up to 3 4k monitors.
But none of them will be able to run games at 4k on high settings.

If you wanna game on 4K with high settings you need to have an absurd amount of GPU power. Like Nvidia Titan in SLI config.

If you're gonna buy a mac pro to play games then you might as well buy the quad cores. As far as i know there are no games using more then 4 cores. Quad with D700s is best for gaming.

Dual D700's 8 core new Mac Pro gaming in 4k resolution on a new Dell 4K monitor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT7PXTbrq00

 

[ozbimmer]

Dual D700's 8 core new Mac Pro gaming in 4k resolution on a new Samsung 4K monitor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT7PXTbrq00

It's a dell 4k

 

[apolloa]

It's a dell 4k

Yeap. Edited comment.

 

[wildmac]

New results here...

http://www.barefeats.com/tube07.html

So..

Based on these tests, quite happy with my choice of D300 over the D500, and putting the extra $$ into more ram and larger SSD. Unless the Hex/D500 shows significant gains over the Quad/D300 in Lightroom, gonna leave my order alone.

I probably will install Win 8 on my nMP when it comes, as these increases are good enough to make that worthwhile.

 

[lesferdinand]

I probably will install Win 8 on my nMP when it comes, as these increases are good enough to make that worthwhile.

I did install Win 8 on mine, to see CrossFire at work. I was skeptical that I would use Bootcamp much, as I hardly ever used it on my HDD-based iMac. But the super fast SSD makes rebooting less of a chore.

I would still prefer to not leave OS X at all. A CrossFire-like, driver based solution would be great and together with Wineskin could obviate the need for Windows completely. But I'm not holding my breath.

 

[MH01]

How do you know whether or not the new Mac Pro is good at gaming when there have been no benchmarks under Bootcamp yet?

Cause he is comparing it to a gaming PC.

Let's assume you spend the same on a Mac Pro and a farming PC, the gaming performance of a Mac Pro sucks.... The benchmarks will just show you by how much,

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Lets be realistic here. Mac gaming sucks. It just sucks less than it used to. I dearly love OS X, and I love Apple's hardware design equally as much. My Retina MacBook Pro 15" is a wonderful thing, I use it every day, and I will continue to use it every day for almost everything.

Except games.

There is also a GTX 680MX equipped iMac in my house. I don't personally use it much, but I have put it through its paces. I will continue to not use it much. It is not at all compelling to play games on. Even EFI booted into Windows.

I was hoping (without any shred of sanity) that Apple would throw a bone to the gaming community with the new Mac Pro. Unsurprisingly, they did not. Which means now I must look elsewhere. I've already specced out a Micro-ATX PC and ordered the parts for it. This can be had for dramatically less than a Mac Pro, and it performs hugely better in this particular use case.

It is okay that Apple does not cater to gamers. We are not a large or lucrative market relative to the other markets that exist. It is a shame, but what can you do? Part of what makes Apple so good at what they do is what they do not do.

Spot on!!!!,. Though people on MR have reality distortion fields on and redefine what gaming benchmark is. Get ready for a bunch of fubar about how the new Mac Pro is a great gaming setup.... Pffft! Waste of time arguing with them.

 

[jondunford]

If you are against Mac gaming why are you even on this thread?

I think the OP would have called their thread "Is a PC better for gaming than a Mac?" if they cared about what you have to say.

The thread is about Mac Pro gaming, on an Apple forum, if you are a PC gamer why don't you go to a PC forum?

 

[slughead]

Cause he is comparing it to a gaming PC.

Let's assume you spend the same on a Mac Pro and a farming PC, the gaming performance of a Mac Pro sucks.... The benchmarks will just show you by how much,

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Spot on!!!!,. Though people on MR have reality distortion fields on and redefine what gaming benchmark is. Get ready for a bunch of fubar about how the new Mac Pro is a great gaming setup.... Pffft! Waste of time arguing with them.

Uhh there are plenty Gaming benchmarks in Windows with the nMP. The D700 are quite good, about 12-30% slower than a 7990 which isn't too shabby. They're basically underclocked Radeon 280X's in Crossfire, making it about the same as a high-end gaming PC

I'm not a fan of the nMP and may never buy one, but it's plain to see that it's not bad as a gaming rig in Windows. OS X gaming, however, is a joke.