Several games benchmarked on the 6970m

[iSayuSay]

Anti Aliasing is a steroid feature which needed when you play at lower resolution monitor

It eliminates jaggy lines while consume needless power of your GPU. The unique thing is, in the future when monitor resolution increased, the need of Anti Aliasing will be minimized since the monitor compensate with more dense DPI

But anyway, awesome result, now iMac would be proper for gaming machine .. Way to go

Hmm, but where is Crysis benchmark? No gaming computer should pass the test without Crysis

 

[sth]

No, you don't. This is wrong. I can promise that at native res AA adds literally almost NO difference in clarity, the resolution is already ultra high the begin with.

AA is cool at 720P, maybe 1080P, at 1440P? Not so much.

It's not so much about clarity, it's about the jagged lines being really distractive when in motion, especially at high-contrast edges. Of course you can get used to it, but it's still not nice.

And for the "high density cures everything" argument: It does, but even on the iPhone4 screen you can still see the difference between AA and no AA, and iMacs won't get even close to that pixel density in the coming years.

 

[Kendo]

seems if you waited for an imac this is the one to buy, new cpu line and a big jump in gpu it seems.

just sold my old 2010 model, and orderd the top 27" with the i7 and the 6970m with 2gb vram

Mind telling us how much you sold it for and how did you sell it? Craigslist, eBay, or a friend? I'm curious since I plan on selling my iMac every other year to upgrade to the latest refresh.

 

[SurfAndSand]

benchmarks

I don't know if this makes any difference regarding those benchmarks - but aren't those benchmarks from drivers from a Windows PC?

As I understand it, the Apple drivers are lagging behind, and may not offer optimal performance despite having the hardware that can run SC2.

 

[animefanotaku]

I haven't had a chance to intall windows 7 or run any other osx compatible games except for a brief moment of world of warcraft. Everything at ultra with native res is cake. I get 60fps everywhere (vsync on) except in the cities which it seems to automatically scale down to 30fps when there a lot of people. However I can't even tell that there has been a slow down when this happens.

 

[archer75]

I haven't had a chance to intall windows 7 or run any other osx compatible games except for a brief moment of world of warcraft. Everything at ultra with native res is cake. I get 60fps everywhere (vsync on) except in the cities which it seems to automatically scale down to 30fps when there a lot of people. However I can't even tell that there has been a slow down when this happens.

You know, for whatever reason the zone with the biggest impact on performance on my machines has always been zangermarsh. Makes my computer cry. And Dalaran of course. Even with everyone moving back to the main cities Dalaran is still tough on my computer.

Do you run BG's or raid? I'd be curious to know what performance is like at those times when there is a lot of activity going on at once.

I'd also like to know if it's running hot and if the fans are getting loud when you game for periods at a time?

Also i'd appreciate it if you could open activity monitor while you are gaming, with mail, browser, whatever open in the background and report back how much ram it's using so i'll know how much to order. I know, i'm getting demanding

 

[animefanotaku]

I've been doing TB until our guild's raid tonight.
So far there has been no slow downs at all. I can't hear the fan come on because my external hdd enclosure has a small fan in it that is apparently louder.

But, it is getting hot! It's my first imac so i can't compare it to anything, but the back, especially the top, is very hot.

Running WoW, browser with a bunch of stuff up, adium, qs, and whatnot, memory says :
Free 294.3mb
Wired 789.7mb
Active 2.02GB
Inactive 941.6mb
Used 3.71GB

of which it says WoW is taking up 1.22GB

So, not certain on how osx handles this, but I'm guessing there is about 1gb of ram that isn't being actively used.
I had 4gb on my laptop and never had any issues, although i do think I will put in an additional 4gb at some point.

 

[archer75]

I've been doing TB until our guild's raid tonight.
So far there has been no slow downs at all. I can't hear the fan come on because my external hdd enclosure has a small fan in it that is apparently louder.

But, it is getting hot! It's my first imac so i can't compare it to anything, but the back, especially the top, is very hot.

Running WoW, browser with a bunch of stuff up, adium, qs, and whatnot, memory says :
Free 294.3mb
Wired 789.7mb
Active 2.02GB
Inactive 941.6mb
Used 3.71GB

of which it says WoW is taking up 1.22GB

So, not certain on how osx handles this, but I'm guessing there is about 1gb of ram that isn't being actively used.
I had 4gb on my laptop and never had any issues, although i do think I will put in an additional 4gb at some point.

Thanks for the info. Yeah, i'm not sure how that ram breakdown works.

Keep us up to date on how it's running.

 

[dh2005]

On ultra settings notebookcheck shows the 6970m getting 25fps and the older 5850m/5750 getting 12fps

That's generous, in my experience. On Ultra, it plain just cacks-out. It's like a slideshow.

It certainly seems like the 6970m is a big improvement. Which presents me with a quandary...

 

[henrikrox]

Firsts tests are in, not any real benchmark though, but should give you and idea.

i just copy this from another thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5pWpzPZwZY

Portal 2 gameplay

Max resolution
Max settings
x8 aa
filtering x16

between 40-60 fps it seems.

Now i dont want to sound like a fanboy or anything. But for a all in one system running a brand new game with max settings, everything maxed at those fps, is pretty sweet. turn down the aa/filtering and u will see even more steady fps.

And yes PC people can say their system is running this at 200fps, but the monitor limited the "experience" to 60fps anyways so anything over that is just overkill.

Hope to see more results soon

 

[alust2013]

Firsts tests are in, not any real benchmark though, but should give you and idea.

i just copy this from another thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5pWpzPZwZY

Portal 2 gameplay

Max resolution
Max settings
x8 aa
filtering x16

between 40-60 fps it seems.

Now i dont want to sound like a fanboy or anything. But for a all in one system running a brand new game with max settings, everything maxed at those fps, is pretty sweet. turn down the aa/filtering and u will see even more steady fps.

And yes PC people can say their system is running this at 200fps, but the monitor limited the "experience" to 60fps anyways so anything over that is just overkill.

Hope to see more results soon

Moblile GPU, my arse, lol That's darn good with everything maxed. 40 isn't bad to begin with, and 60 is all the monitor can handle.

 

[dh2005]

It's not so much about clarity, it's about the jagged lines being really distractive when in motion, especially at high-contrast edges. Of course you can get used to it, but it's still not nice.

And for the "high density cures everything" argument: It does, but even on the iPhone4 screen you can still see the difference between AA and no AA, and iMacs won't get even close to that pixel density in the coming years.

This is a deep-seated personal preference. I tried to argue it out with the venerable TMRaven, twice, but we couldn't agree.

Me? I like 1080p and maximum AA. TMR likes 1440p, and 'no AA' doesn't bother him. I get distracted by the jaggies. He gets distracted by the fuzz (which, honestly, I can't see).

Just go with what works for you, mate.