Share on Facebook Tweet this Share Benchmarks of have appeared on Geekbench, and there are some interesting numbers to chew on. Were conducted by Primate Labs founder John Poole, and compare the new units against the batch released in late 2015 and late 2014, as well as sold in late 2013. Based on, the benchmarks measure single-core performance, multiple-core performance, and the compute tasks of the installed graphics cards. OpenCL performance Shown below, the lowest-performing graphics chip in the new batch of iMacs provides better performance than the best graphics chip offered in the most recent group shipped in late 2015. This benchmark doesn’t test the chips for their gaming capabilities, but on how well they can handle simulating physics, processing images, and other tasks offloaded by the main CPU. What’s important to note is that the Radeon Pro 580 and Radeon Pro 575 outperformed the AMD FirePro D700 graphics chip (93,028) in the 2013 Mac Pro. However, Poole notes that Geekbench 4 only measures the performance of one graphics chip at a time.

Jul 14, 2017 - WWDC 2017 gave onlookers new hope (Metal 2!), but Mac gaming still. New Metal graphics API and a better-than-ever-before install base. Since I just purchased a 2017 21.5' iMac with roughly the same internal components (BTO'd the top tier 21.5' with Radeon Pro 560 to include the Core i7 and 16Gb of RAM) I was curious to see how it would handle gaming with older titles like Borderlands 2, etc. It's nice to.

Apple’s Mac Pro includes two FirePro D700 graphics chips with 6GB of dedicated video memory each. That said, the Mac Pro’s FirePro D500 and D300 graphics chips reside toward the bottom of the benchmark chart, falling between the iMac 2015’s Radeon R9 M395 and the iMac 2015’s Radeon R9 M390 graphics chips. Two iMac 2014 models are also listed, with the Radeon R9 M295X scoring an 86,494 and the Radeon R9 M290X scoring a 76,507. Here are the iMac 2017 benchmarks vs.

The 2015 models.

I've been looking into purchasing a 2017 iMac. I'm coming from a Dell Inspiron 17r (it's basically 17 inch laptop with a really crappy intel processor and intel hd graphics, I've been using it for the last 6 years) and I'm a casual gamer. I'm looking to play games like Warframe and Team Fortress, but I'm wondering if I should get a gaming computer instead of a 5k iMac. I do a lot of photo editing.

If you can, please tell me how your gaming performance and over all experience is on your iMac, and any issues. Thank you and have a good day! You do make a good point. To be frank, I've been using Windows for around 8 years (I'm 12 at the time or writing this) and I really want a change.

Windows is getting old to me. It's kinda hard for me to make a choice. I can either buy a gaming pc for super cheap and do my photo editing there, but then support and what not won't be good as opposed to getting an Apple product, or b), I can get an Apple product and not only have something that'll last me a long time, but since there are so few models and combinations compared to others, getting help is really easy.

Ran up BF1 last night at 1440p with Medium settings, first impressions (only a 5 min play).awesome, really happy I still need to take a closer look at the gfx settings (should easily do HIGH) but out the box it was great. I tried the Hackintosh root a few years back but it was too much hassle so it remained windows, i waited ages for them to release something that'd play games well enough and the 580 certainly ticks that box. I went with the i5 580 + 512SSD so it's not cheap but its exactly what I want. The huge advantages that an iMac has over a PC 'rig' is that unbelievable 5k screen plus the high physical quality control and smooth operating system. But an iMac isn't intended to be a gaming machine. Know what you are getting into.

That said, even the base 570 (27') is quite good in most games at 1440. Borderlands series, Civ. V, Portal series, Enemy Unknown, and a whole bunch of other such titles that I have tried all run smoothly. Don't get sucked into the top-spec model just because of a few games. Older games work great, and newer games are getting more efficient all the time. It's just a few particularly-inefficient games that are too demanding. For those, whip out your 1080ti and still suffer.

I thought about getting a Windows PC earlier this year, as there no Mac that was capable of VR gaming, due to the sub-optimal GPUs. All that changed when I saw the WWDC keynote, where Industrial Light & Magic demonstrated how the 2017 27-inch iMac could pump out excellent VR visuals with the HTC Vive. I originally assumed that they were using the iMac Pro for the VR, as I wasn't paying enough attention when viewing it live. Upon watching it again though, I noticed that it was indeed the 2017 27-inch iMac that they were using.