OS X Yosemite Games/Benchmarks

alright guys. has become tradition me since mountain lion - update apple's latest , greatest os , run game benchmarks - see what, if anything, has changed. 1 thing that's remained constant specs of imac - 2.9ghz i5, 8gb ram, 1 tb hd, 512mb nvidia geforce gt 650m gpu.

time, we're talking os x 10.10 yosemite. i'm going largely focus on games use opengl 4.x, because reports showing minimum fps doubling, seems rather exciting, of play action games online. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1734820&highlight=tomb+raider+benchmark&page=3

i'll start unigine's heaven, runs opengl 4.1 , hardware tessellation on nvidia kepler gpus , newer:

here results (default res heaven on mac 1024 x 576)

test one
med qual
tess normal
options on
aa off
______________
34.1 fps (8.8 min, 61.2 max)

test two
med qual
tess disabled
options on
aa 4x
______________
36.4 fps (13.1 min, 61.4 max)

these compare favorably tests ran year ago when mavericks first introduced: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1658798

i've added new test time, including 4x aa , lowest tessellation, see impact has.

test three
med qual
tess moderate
options on
aa 4x
______________
29.7 fps (13.5 min, 61.5 max)

so, latest version of heaven running latest version of os x showing not minimum frame rate boost, maximum frame rate boost. it's showing in benchmark lower minimums in 1 setting, , higher minimums in other.


let's move on.

i'm going run simplified set of benchmarks batman arkham city:

1024 x 768
min - 28
max - 60
ave - 49

1920 x 1080
min - 25
max - 60
ave - 43

last time, difference between these runs resolution:

last year's #s on mavericks

1024 x 768
min - 19
max - 60
ave - 48

1920 x 1080
min - 7
max - 56
ave - 38

so, quite interesting story here in arkham city! @ 720p, game ran dramatic increase in minimum frame rates. @ 1080p, minimum frame rate quadruples (from 7 25). i'm curious know if delta increase resolution increases. 21.5" imac maxes out @ 1080p, maybe owners of 27" models or macbook pro retinas/mac pros chime in higher resolution experience.


now, let's at tomb raider, opengl 4.1 game features built-in benchmarking tool:

default settings @ 1344 x 756
min - 45.3
max - 62.9
avg - 56.5

in march, when ran benchmark in mavericks got 55 avg.

not huge improvement.


hopefully, serve beginning of discussion of performance regard yosemite , modern games! enjoy!

 

your 512 mb gpu going of bottleneck. i'm curious see if improvements greater on systems 1+ gb units, particularly current geforce gt 750m.

 

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